The maintainers of OCaml, an open-source functional programming language, rejected an AI-generated pull request (PR) with more than 13,000 lines of code, citing copyright concerns, lack of review resources, and that it did not align with the maintenance practices of the project – raising key issues about the future interaction between AI and open source. OCaml has several compilers, including ocamlc which emits bytecode and ocamlopt which builds standalone native executables. Typically, OCaml de...