• [$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Feb 18 06:40:09 2026

    Various forms of tools, colloquially known as "AI", have been
    rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. Many
    developers are embracing LLM tools for code creation and review. Some
    project maintainers complain about suffering from a deluge of slop-laden pull requests, as well as fabricated bug and security
    reports. Too many projects are reeling from scraperbot attacks that
    effectively DDoS important infrastructure. But an AI bot flaming an
    open-source maintainer was not on our bingo card for 2026; that seemed
    a bit too far-fetched. However, it appears that is just what happened
    recently after a project rejected a bot-driven pull request.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1058643/
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