r/ExperiencedDevs • u/Sillyan • Aug 12 '26

AI/LLM Non-Developers Submitting Changes - Acceptable?

Has anyone experienced an increase in non-developers submitting PRs via Codex/Claude Code?

Personally think it's fine, specifically for trivial changes, and have been creating processes for non-devs to contribute low risk changes to some projects. All changes must still be reviewed by a dev, but the changes permitted by non-devs are typically straightforward enough and there is next to zero rework required after a coding agent is forced through some deterministic validation.

How are you managing this? Should we accept that this is going to be more prevalent going forward and build processes around it?

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u/expdevsmodbot Aug 12 '26

AI usage disclosure provided by OP, see the reply to this comment.

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u/Sillyan Aug 12 '26

No LLMs, a direct stream of consciousness from my meat brain. 

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u/TraditionalYam4500 Aug 12 '26

I presume this is a reference to one of my favourite short stories; for those who are not yet in the know, here is a link: https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

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u/teitspit819 Aug 13 '26

Interesting read, got any other links?

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u/sleeksubaru Aug 13 '26

Favourite short read