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Mentorship, Interrupted: How GenAI Disrupts the GSoC Pipeline and Why Mentors Matter More
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Generative AI (GenAI) makes open source software (OSS) contributions cheaper to produce, and it makes them say less about the people who produced them. In OSS mentoring, that matters: mentors judge what newcomers understand from their work, and newcomers learn from mentors' feedback. We studied how GenAI is changing mentoring in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program in which today's mentees can become tomorrow's mentors. We screened every thread on GSoC's restricted mentors' mailing list from November 2022 through March 2026 and interviewed 15 mentors and organization administrators. GenAI helped with onboarding, coordination, and first-pass review, but proposals, entry contributions, and mentees' answers became weaker evidence of what newcomers could do. Mentors made up the difference by checking, and that checking drew on the same time and goodwill the program needs to renew itself; one organization had withdrawn from GSoC. Responses ranged from banning GenAI to accepting it, and the boundary an organization drew determined who did the checking. We propose AIM, a decision framework that links acceptable GenAI use, integration into the mentoring pipeline, and mentoring capacity, to help organizations choose responses they can sustain.
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Mentorship, Interrupted: How GenAI Disrupts the GSoC Pipeline and Why Mentors Matter More
Generative AI (GenAI) makes open source software (OSS) contributions cheaper to produce, and it makes them say less about the people who produced them. In OSS mentoring, that matters: mentors judge what newcomers understand from their work, and newcomers learn from mentors' feedback. We studied how GenAI is changing mentoring in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program in which today's mentees can become tomorrow's mentors. We screened every thread on GSoC's restricted mentors' mailing list from November 2022 through March 2026 and interviewed 15 mentors and organization administrators. GenAI helped with onboarding, coordination, and first-pass review, but proposals, entry contributions, and mentees' answers became weaker evidence of what newcomers could do. Mentors made up the difference by checking, and that checking drew on the same time and goodwill the program needs to renew itself; one organization had withdrawn from GSoC. Responses ranged from banning GenAI to accepting it, and the boundary an organization drew determined who did the checking. We propose AIM, a decision framework that links acceptable GenAI use, integration into the mentoring pipeline, and mentoring capacity, to help organizations choose responses they can sustain.
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