GitHub user Jefffrey created a discussion: Policy on uptick of LLM PRs from new 
contributors

I've been seeing cases where a first time contributor starts submitting 
multiple PRs at once, especially across a variety of components in the 
codebase. It leads me to believe people are getting LLMs to auto-create PRs 
from issues and are mass sending them, in some cases not even checking if there 
is already a PR linked to the issue.

This gives low confidence that the PR author has actually reviewed and 
understood the changes, especially if they are creating PRs to other repos at 
the same time. I wonder if we should have a policy on how many open PRs a first 
time contributor should be allowed to have, similar to what polars has: 
https://docs.pola.rs/development/contributing/#first-time-contributions

There was a recent discussion in the arrow mailing list, though its more about 
a setting to apply to all non-committers: 
https://lists.apache.org/thread/fsfply47z9rb6bz0x50b2whlhg6hnflr

Though this reply from that mailing list is quite relevant:

> A thing I've noticed is that an issue opened by a regular contributor with 
> the intent of immediately working on it will sometimes get a PR opened 
> against it within an hour or two. The newly opened PR will typically come 
> from a new contributor and is likely AI-generated

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/discussions/24413

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