> Nope, most of the PRs are authored entirely by agents with people instructing them to “pr famous projects in my name to increase my GitHub profile value or “hire ability”.

I've heard this in a lot of places, don't have a way to verify this in action. Do you have any citation or just gut feel (still valid but less useful for me).

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pyreko a day ago | parent | next [-]

Anecdotally, as someone who's been starting to get more and more agent-only/driven PRs, a good amount of the time it's by an account with little to no activity until one day they suddenly start doing 50-100+ PRs a _day_ on entirely unrelated projects... you can kind of guess what they're doing.

As for motive, it probably varies, though some will loudly put that they're some agent manager or something with lots of contributions, so you can guess their motivations there.

In other cases, these are instrad brand-new accounts which is a related but I guess slightly different story... not gonna say these are spam bot accounts being juiced with fake activity but well...

	▲	newswasboring a day ago \| parent [-]
		These are all fair observations, I have not personally come across these yet but I am also not looking for them. I guess someone more involved in open source collaboration would have a better lens here.

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m4rtink a day ago | parent | prev [-]

There was this attempt (attack?) on Fedora in June: https://lwn.net/Articles/1077035/