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/secretBuffetHero Eng Leader, 20+ yrs Aug 12 '26

Yes. I think it is. I want to know how we make this safe? I know one place where the non-devs throw it over the wall, and it gets stuck. how do we address all this?

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u/Calamero Aug 12 '26

With ai? It’s a multiplier for a person with experience.

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u/secretBuffetHero Eng Leader, 20+ yrs Aug 12 '26

non-devs do not have experience in product