**Peter Cock** @pjacock@fediscience.org · Nov 24, 2025, 09:33

**Peter Cock** @pjacock@fediscience.org · Nov 24, 2025, 09:33

Peter Cock @pjacock@fediscience.org

Nov 24, 2025, 09:33

I blogged my thoughts on receiving generative AI contributions as an Open Source project maintainer https://blastedbio.blogspot.com/2025/11/thoughts-on-generative-ai-contributions.html - seen with #Bioinformatics and #Biopython in particular in mind, but most of these issues are generic to #OpenSource development. It worries me #GenAI

**Nicola Romanò** @nicolaromano@qoto.org · 2025-11-24T14:45:24Z

Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

@pjacock interesting reflections! I am wondering how did you define that contribution as AI generated? was the contributor open about it? where there telltale signs? I guess you can't be sure that this was the first AI generated code that went through.

Nov 24, 2025, 14:45 · · Tusky · · ·

**Peter Cock** @pjacock@fediscience.org · Nov 24, 2025, 15:30

**Peter Cock** @pjacock@fediscience.org · Nov 24, 2025, 15:30

Nov 24, 2025, 15:30

Peter Cock @pjacock@fediscience.org

@nicolaromano for both the two cases I had in mind, the contributor was open about it (there could be others where they were not and we didn’t suspect). See the November Biopython mailing list of you want specifics.

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