This has basically been the story for us at Hatchet too, and it’s been similarly challenging. A lot of the OSS PR reviews I’ve done lately from non-core contributors are basically just me going back and forth with Claude via someone else, which is frustrating when I feel like I could 1) just not or 2) do the back and forth with Claude myself and cut out the middle man.

I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

Edit: typos, on mobile

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dspillett 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

From the reports coming from a number of places, I'm absolutely sure this is what is happening. People want the glory of finding a named bug, perhaps they believe some more widely useful reputation gain is heading their way if something that their bot finds is actually massively significant. Though it isn't limited to 500 repos, they tell it to just keep going after every one it scans.

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BowBun 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I have a sneaking suspicion that people are having some agent check out 500 repos and just prompting with “find a bug in this repo and fix it” and submitting the results blindly.

This is unironically suggested as a way to 'get in the door' both in bootcamps and 'spammy' universities.

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jvanderbot an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, contributing to FOSS is a prestige accomplishment. It's viewed as a way in. It's now just a metric to game, and to automate that process is too easy.

Combine this with a growing sense of being "left behind" and a highly publicized collapse in software jobs coming any day now and any proof of contribution is highly prized. So why not?

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nemomarx an hour ago | parent [-]

They'll destroy the prestige of it by doing this, though. Unfortunately the OSS model will have to change to cut them off now, and the more people rush it the faster that response will happen.

	▲	jvanderbot an hour ago \| parent [-]
		On the contrary, the prestige will go up - filtering mechanisms, fatigue, and general banning of AI contributions will make it harder to get a PR accepted. If you make it past all that, you are a real one now.

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20k an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've seen this with godot. People are letting their agents blindly file AI generated PRs even though Godot specifically bans this, and then coming in and giving a very weak apology when they get called out by the devs. A lot of the bugs are incredibly low priority bugs as well that no reasonable person would ever really run into, with these huge long wordy slop reports

Its kind of appalling that people think this is an acceptable way to behave