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> that you have the necessary rights to the content and that the content you contribute may be
> provided under the project license.

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### AUTOMATED CONTRIBUTIONS (AI / LLM) POLICY

#### AI Use
- It is in everyone's best interest to **not** submit issues, pull requests or feature requests that are AI-generated.
- All such requests will be closed and submitters will be blocked from the repository.

#### You must...
- Be able to understand and respond to questions relating to the issue or the fix you provide.
- You *can* use an AI tool for proofreading, translating or understanding the issue's content.
- You **cannot** use AI tools to generate the issue text, or the issue itself.

#### Pull Requests
- You should be able to explain every part of the code you have written/modified in your PR.
- If you do not understand your PR, **do not** submit it. You cannot use an AI tool to generate code for you.

The rationale behind this policy is that automated contributions are a waste of the maintainers' time. Humans spend their time and brainpower reviewing every submission. Issues or pull requests generated by automation tools create an imbalance of effort between the submitter and the reviewer. Nobody learns anything when a maintainer reviews code written by an LLM.

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[nitpick] This paragraph is very long and difficult to read. Consider breaking it into multiple shorter sentences or bullet points for better readability.

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The rationale behind this policy is that automated contributions are a waste of the maintainers' time. Humans spend their time and brainpower reviewing every submission. Issues or pull requests generated by automation tools create an imbalance of effort between the submitter and the reviewer. Nobody learns anything when a maintainer reviews code written by an LLM.
The rationale behind this policy is:
- Automated contributions are a waste of the maintainers' time.
- Humans spend their time and brainpower reviewing every submission.
- Issues or pull requests generated by automation tools create an imbalance of effort between the submitter and the reviewer.
- Nobody learns anything when a maintainer reviews code written by an LLM.

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Additionally, such AI-generated content impedes legitimate issues and feature requests that would add more value to the project.


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