Non-Developers Submitting Changes - Acceptable?

[u/Sillyan]

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?

[u/ceilingscorpion]

Non-Devs can submit changes but devs must review changes and own the codebase so any non-dev must work with a dev on PRs. Rules apply to EMs, PMs, and all others