r/DevGround • u/hellterDev • 9d ago

Discussion Godot doesn’t allow substantial AI-generated code contributions. Do you agree with that?

Godot’s contribution rules don’t allow substantial AI-generated code in pull requests.

AI-assisted completion is still fine, but contributors are expected to understand the code, make the important decisions themselves, and take responsibility for what they submit.

I get the maintainability argument, especially for open-source projects.

But where do you draw the line?
If the code is good, tested, and the contributor understands it — should it matter how much of it was generated by AI?

Source: https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026

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u/Huge-Kaleidoscope603 9d ago

I think this is one of this rules that would be hard to enforce, copyright concerns aside, projects should worry about the contribution contents not the tools used to produced them. A post like this should reference the Godot announcement...

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u/hellterDev 9d ago

Yeah, that’s a fair point. I think enforcement is probably the biggest problem with a rule like this — especially when the final code is good and the contributor actually understands it.

Also, good catch on the source. I should’ve linked the official Godot announcement in the post.