Flask's creator refuses to be an unpaid code reviewer for everyone's LLM (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
Miguel Grinberg borrowed Cory Doctorow's 'reverse centaur' — a human reduced to serving a machine — to describe what open source maintenance has become: spending your days reviewing code an LLM wrote and nobody understands.
His fix is friction: open an issue first, in your own voice, no LLM-generated novel with bullet points and emojis. A Netflix engineer in the thread noted that ticket queues aren't reverse centaurs at all — a person is on the other end.
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