ESLint retires contributor pool funding

The maintainers of ESLint announced the immediate retirement of their contributor pool, a monthly fund established to compensate outsider contributors for meaningful pull requests and other project support. The decision was driven by an influx of AI-generated contributions, difficulties in distinguishing between human and AI code, and intense monitoring by community members policing AI attribution. The author argues that these changes made managing the pool unsustainable and took the joy out of maintaining the open source project. Open article →