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I think the litmus test is roughly "is this obviously AI created" - if it's a well crafted PR that doesn't do the things you mention, and solves a genuine issue in a sensible way then you'd not be able to tell.

The other part of the litmus test is "does the person submitting actually understand what they're submitting and why" - which is arguably not required for PRs that you'd otherwise accept, but since you have to put time and effort into determining whether a given contribution is ok to merge, it's common decency for the submitter to have done a self review first (AI or no AI)

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> But what about the good AI driven contributions though?

Okay, who is going to wade through the noise to find the signal? You?

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I have never gotten a good PR from an AI agent (that I know of) so I guess I’ll deal with it when it happens. I suspect I will still just reject it out of principal.
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Why do you ask me to do the categorizing? If you're sending me a PR, then you should be filtering the bad ones from the good. If you're just going to send me drive-by PRs, then I don't have time for you.

I mean, sure, I have to make the final determination. But you should not be sending me uncurated slop.

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