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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 6:58 PM UTC

philipwhiuk wrote: post #21

embedding-shape wrote: post #4

It's easy to miss, but in the middle of the page: > 4609 remaining items Seems gemini-cli and gemini-cli didn't understand who themselves were, so they though someone else added/removed the label, which it tried to correct, which the other then tried to correct, which the other... Considering that that repository has what seems like ~10 longer term contributors, who probably get email notifications, together with a b…

> Considering that that repository has what seems like ~10 longer term contributors, who probably get email notifications, together with a bunch of other people who get notifications about it, wonder how many emails were sent out because of this? If we just assume ten people get the emails, it's already 46K emails going out in under 24 hours... Unless GitHub are idiots they batch email updates to mitigate this

Post by cyberax » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #24

embedding-shape wrote: post #4

It's easy to miss, but in the middle of the page: > 4609 remaining items Seems gemini-cli and gemini-cli didn't understand who themselves were, so they though someone else added/removed the label, which it tried to correct, which the other then tried to correct, which the other... Considering that that repository has what seems like ~10 longer term contributors, who probably get email notifications, together with a b…

“Everyone, just STOP PRESSING REPLY-ALL.” It’s not just bots that fall into this trap.

Post by embedding-shape » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC

Sophira wrote: post #31

embedding-shape wrote: post #4

It's easy to miss, but in the middle of the page: > 4609 remaining items Seems gemini-cli and gemini-cli didn't understand who themselves were, so they though someone else added/removed the label, which it tried to correct, which the other then tried to correct, which the other... Considering that that repository has what seems like ~10 longer term contributors, who probably get email notifications, together with a b…

> did someone pay for all of these inference calls here? Considering that these responses are all the exact same two replies in wording, and that this is a task which could be easily automated without AI, I seriously doubt that it's going to be caused by actual inference.

Post by inopinatus » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC

bArray wrote: post #40

PyWoody wrote: post #15

Heh. This reminds me of the time when our newly hired "Salesforce Expert" improved our support queue: Every time Support received a new email, a ticket in Salesforce would be created and assigned to Support Every time Support was assigned a new ticket, Salesforce would send a notification email The worst part is he wouldn't admit to the mistake and it took us forever to find where he buried the rule.

Maybe 20 years ago... As a student, the school had an email server that allowed rules to be set. You could set an email to be sent as a result of another email. IT were not stupid though, and set a series of rules: 1. You cannot have a rule trigger to email yourself. 2. You cannot reply to an email triggered by a rule. 3. You have ~50MB max of emails (which was a lot at the time). Playing around one lunch, my friend…

Post by heliumtera » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

supernes wrote: post #37

Finally an example of AI doing something useful. Imagine having to add and remove all those tags 4500+ times by hand!