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Post by LarsKrimi »

formerly_proven wrote: post #127
LarsKrimi wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a cultural thing, and one of the first things you learn to handle when working tightly together with Indians as an outsider. I can't remember all the techniques but a simple trick is to ask them to repeat their understanding back to you before they start working on a thing. But I don't think it's connected to sending "malicious" reports. That seems rather to be to pad their resume and online presence while st…

You know who also needs a lot of micro-management but doesn’t live in a time zone, is way faster than offshore contractors, scales up and down instantly, has no onboarding period and is (still) cheaper? Opus.

Ehh nothx. I like my slop human powered

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Post by MadameMinty »

nchmy wrote: post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

I've noticed this also. But I didn't ascribe it to LLMs, rather figured there is some sort of rogue educator in India who's instructing students to do this on public repos and they just don't know better. But the prof should.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Post by CrzyLngPwd »

Every site and every service is going to be swamped with AI-generated slop and will have to deal with it by banning it, and then detecting and deleting it.

This was entirely predictable. When you give everyone the ability to be good at something with no effort, everyone is going to do it (and think they are the first).

My partner recently bought a book from Amazon, and when it arrived, I looked at the cover, flicked through it, and said it was AI slop. She complained to Amazon, and they just refunded her, no questions asked, and the book went in the fire.

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Post by hypeatei »

pharrington wrote: post #97
hypeatei wrote: post #51

> We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap If shame worked, then slop reports would've stopped being made already. Public ridicule only creates a toxic environment where good faith actors are caught up in unnecessary drama because a maintainer felt their time was being wasted. Ban them, close your bug bounty program, whatever, but don't start attacking people when you feel slighted bec…

Test your hypothesis by attaching your offline name to your internet profiles.

That's sort of the whole point of this thought exercise, no? If shame worked in an environment with anonymous/pseudonymous users, then we wouldn't be here. The only people you stand to harm are the ones who attach their real identities to their profile (and they're more likely to be good faith IMO)

Besides, I've seen plenty of profiles here on HN who advertise their real name and espouse (in my view) awful takes that would most likely not fly in real life. I'd recommend reading this article[0] for an example of when people, with their real names exposed, can still cause a shitstorm of misunderstanding.

0: https://lwn.net/Articles/973782/

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Post by vivzkestrel »

- I notice a lot of stuff in github issues all the time

- For example, there is this +1 comment pasted like 500 times that I have seen a lot over issues

- Cant we have a github regex bot of sorts ^(\W+)?\+(\W+)?1(\W+)?$ that removes all such comments? or let the author of the repo control what kind of regex based stuff to remove?

- I know regex kind of sounds old fashioned in the age of LLMs but it is kinda simple to manage and doesnt require crazy infra to run

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Post by raverbashing »

causalscience wrote: post #44
nchmy wrote: post #11

I've been helping a bit with OWASP documentation lately and there's been a surge of Indian students eagerly opening nonsensical issues and PRs and all of the communication and code is clearly 100% LLMs. They'll even talk back and forth with each other. It's a huge headache for the maintainers. I suggested following what Ghostty does where everything starts as discussions - only maintainers create issues, and PRs can…

> Indian students Is this cultural? I ran a small business some years ago (later failed) and was paying for contract work to various people. At the I perceived the pattern that Indian contractors would never ever ask for clarifications, would never say they didn't know something, would never say they didn't understand something, etc. Instead they just ran with whatever they happened to have in their mind, until I cal…

Yes it's "fake till you make it" without the making part

Re: We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Post by latexr »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #81

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.

> 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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