[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Date:
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:22:40 +0000

Description:
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.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1058643/


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