PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
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Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#2Maybe we should cut out the middle-man and make it easy for people to donate token credits to open-source projects, and let the maintainers decide how to use them.
Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#3AI agents who review the slop created by other AI agents is not the answer here.
I much prefer a blanket ban on PRs and issues created by AI agents (which is what I personally do for my repos; so far I have closed one[1]). In fact I would love a github alternative which considers AI contributions to be a breach of their terms of use and ban any people who let AI agents loose on their platform.
1: https://github.com/runarberg/markdown-it-math/pull/48#issuec...
Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#4In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
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#5Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#6In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
What an elegantly common sense solution. It's also probably a really good way to make contacts with interesting people.
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#7Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
I think there are a lot of “tech schools” overseas that require students to show proof of contribution to open source.
Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#8Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
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Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#9Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
I think there are a lot of “tech schools” overseas that require students to show proof of contribution to open source.
It would be wonderful if the instructors at those schools built relationships with open source maintainers and the maintainers knew when their students were submitting PRs.
Could be used as a teaching experience that many maintainers would be happy to participate in, instead of feeling attacked with random low quality PRs.
Re: PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s
#10Can I ask what the motive is to create agents to do this? Where is the profit?
I think there are a lot of “tech schools” overseas that require students to show proof of contribution to open source.
Open source contributions being a great way to learn and to pad out your CV has been considered good advice on all sides of the various seas I’ve lived throughout my career too - it’s not just a dubious code camp thing.