simon_willison ยท Jun 5, 2026 ยท news
Quoting Andreas Kling
We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...] Whether code was typed by hand is beside the point. What matters is who is responsible for it once it enters the browser. Ladybird is becoming a browser for real users. The people introducing changes to it must be the people who decide those changes belong in the project, and who will answer for the consequences. โ Andreas Kling , Changing How We Develop Ladybird Tags: ladybird , ai-ethics , open-source , generative-ai , ai , andreas-kling , llms