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 ## Contributing
 
-There has been a lot of interest in tinygrad lately. Following these guidelines will help your PR get accepted.
+There has been a lot of interest in tinygrad lately. Following these guidelines will help your PR get accepted. If you do submit a PR, please include a sentence or two about why you want this merged and why you think it will improve the project. If you used AI, disclose what you used it for. And be careful with AI, if you are submitting a PR you don't fully understand and haven't carefully read, you will be banned from our GitHub.
 
 We'll start with what will get your PR closed with a pointer to this section: