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by mrkaye977 hours ago |
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upvoteby dspillett7 hours ago|
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> I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

From the reports coming from a number of places, I'm absolutely sure this is what is happening. People want the glory of finding a named bug, perhaps they believe some more widely useful reputation gain is heading their way if something that their bot finds is actually massively significant. Though it isn't limited to 500 repos, they tell it to just keep going after every one it scans.

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upvoteby BowBun7 hours ago|
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>I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

This is unironically suggested as a way to 'get in the door' both in bootcamps and 'spammy' universities.

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upvoteby JDups6 hours ago|
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I have seen a job application with a requirement of having contributed to an open source project with a certain minimum number of github stars.
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upvoteby jvanderbot7 hours ago|
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Well, contributing to FOSS is a prestige accomplishment. It's viewed as a way in. It's now just a metric to game, and to automate that process is too easy.

Combine this with a growing sense of being "left behind" and a highly publicized collapse in software jobs coming any day now and any proof of contribution is highly prized. So why not?

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upvoteby nemomarx7 hours ago|
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They'll destroy the prestige of it by doing this, though. Unfortunately the OSS model will have to change to cut them off now, and the more people rush it the faster that response will happen.
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upvoteby jvanderbot7 hours ago|
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On the contrary, the prestige will go up - filtering mechanisms, fatigue, and general banning of AI contributions will make it harder to get a PR accepted. If you make it past all that, you are a real one now.
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upvoteby 20k7 hours ago|
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I've seen this with godot. People are letting their agents blindly file AI generated PRs even though Godot specifically bans this, and then coming in and giving a very weak apology when they get called out by the devs. A lot of the bugs are incredibly low priority bugs as well that no reasonable person would ever really run into, with these huge long wordy slop reports

Its kind of appalling that people think this is an acceptable way to behave

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