Counter-intuitive Designs in the pi project — From AGENTS.md to "Just Close Your PR First"
After reading Mario Zechner’s “I’ve sold out” and then reviewing AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md in the pi repository, I found that this project differs from common open-source collaboration methods in many ways. New contributors’ issues and PRs are closed by default, no reviews on weekends, and don’t submit PRs if you don’t understand the code. It seems tough, but behind it is a serious attempt to address a problem: how open-source projects can avoid being bogged down by low-quality contributions in the AI era.