Low effort contributions have always, and will ways be, unhelpful. We just now have a tool that generates them EVEN FASTER. :)

That must be frustrating for OSS maintainers, especially when contributing them can meaningfully move the needle on getting jobs, clients, etc.

Definitely makes sense to have rules in place to help dissuade it, but this brave new world isn't going away.

Not only is it even faster, they now disguise themselves to look like professionally written PRs with advanced understanding of the tech, while being filled with junior level bugs. So you have to super scrutinise it.

Which makes me wonder what the point of even taking PRs is, the reviewer could just run the AI themselves and do the same review but not have to go through the process of leaving comments and waiting for the submitter to resolve them.

Bubble goes pop!

I'm old enough to remember the global melt down in 2000ish and 2008. Oh and 1991 in the UK - lol, that's when I graduated. Take your money out of AI and stuff it under the mattress (gold if you are a magpie or blue stocks).

I have actually just spent out on a fairly handy GPU to stuff into one of our backup boxes at work. It has gobs of RAM and a fairly useful pair of CPUs and sits idle during the day.

AI via LLM is a thing but it isn't worth silly money and I think that a wind of change is on the way.

Indeed.

OSS maintainers may need some kind of response like the one I've written here that can be strategically dropped on the worst "bad AI" contributions. I certainly wrote this for myself to make my job easier, anyway.