I think this is probably less effective than if there was some sort of "credit" or reputational score for reporting that seems like something GitHub would have the information to implement.

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latexr 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> seems like something GitHub would have the information to implement.

But not the motivation. GitHub incentives this type of behaviour, they push you to use their LLMs.

GitHub is under Microsoft’s AI division.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/github-will-join-microsofts-co...

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embedding-shape 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> GitHub is under Microsoft’s AI division.

Finally an explanation to why GitHub suddenly have way more bugs than usual for the last months (year even?), and seemingly whole UX flows that no longer work.

I don't understand how it happens, do developers not at least load the pages their changes presumable affects? Or is the developers doing 100% vibe-coding for production code? Don't get me wrong, I use LLMs for development too, but not so I can sacrifice quality, that wouldn't make much sense.

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tomaskafka 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I just listened to podcast from a higher echelon MSFT person, the internal orders basically are “focus on AI”, non-AI work gets deprioritized company wide.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

But that by itself shouldn't mean that people suddenly don't even review and think what they're doing, right? Again, I too use LLMs for lots of work, yet I'm putting out better code than before, because I'm a software engineer, not a software slopper, is this not the common workflow?

	▲	TingPing 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn’t be surprised if experienced people left because of policies like this. It doesn’t matter if you are reasonable your colleagues won’t necessarily be.

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embedding-shape 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think one of the last thing I'd like on the web is for Microsoft to start keeping a "social score" for developers who participate in FOSS.

I understand where it's coming from, and I too think the current situation sucks, but making Microsoft responsible for something like that is bound to create bad times for everyone involved.

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tonyedgecombe 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’d hate to see GitHub assigning reputation to users.

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vladms 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why no go the other direction and make it hard to identify a user, so people do not do it for fame. Open source worked before people were using it as self advertisement.

Might even be good for Microsoft - they would be the only one knowing who is who.

	▲	em-bee 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the berne convention copyright defines inalienable authors rights that can not be sold or taken away from the author. the author of any copyright works always has the right to identify themselves with the work, and therefore your suggestion is not legally possible.

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ehhthing 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This already exists on the previous platform curl was using (HackerOne), it does not prevent the slop.

At my previous employer, I had access to the company’s bug bounty submissions and I can assure you no matter what you try to do, people will submit slop anyway. This is why many companies will pay for “triage services” that do some screening to try to ensure that the exploit actually works.

Unfortunately this means that the first reply to many credible reports are from people who aren’t familiar with the service, meaning that reports often take a long time to be triaged for no reason other than the fact that the reporter assumed that the person reviewing the report would actually understand the product. It’s hard to write good, concise reports if you can’t assume this fact.

Honestly, I don’t know what can be done to fix all of this. It’s a bad situation for everyone involved, and only getting worse.

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IshKebab 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah this seems like a good idea. Plenty of games have "you have to have this much reputation to play in ranked games" sort of things.

I guess people would complain if it was tied to Github.