Comment on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s good for humans. It’s like using a fuzzer in testing software, except in human interactions. It’ll break things more vulnerable and leave be things less vulnerable.

  I hope.

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  • orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Except for all the time of the maintainers that’s being wasted. Time that is very finite and that for many of these people is a thankless unpaid job that they’re donating their nights and weekends towards doing.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which perhaps means that it shouldn’t be thankless and the technology, since it exists, should be used to screen contributions.

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      • fiat_lux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Someone at work accidentally enabled the copilot PR screening bot for everybody on the whole codebase. It put a bunch of warnings on my PRs about the way I was using a particular framework method. It’s suggested fix? To use the method that had been deprecated 2 major versions ago. I was doing it the way that the framework currently deems correct.

        A problem with using a bot which uses statistical likelihood to determine correctness is that historical datasets are likely to contain old information in larger quantities than updated information. This is just one problem with having these bots review code, there are many more. I have yet to see a recommendation from one which surpassed the quality of a traditional linter.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If you already agree that the contributions could very well be worthless crap, why would you use a second layer of worthless crap to gatekeep them?

        If you want to care about people doing the thankless jobs, why would you double the amount of crap they have to sort through?

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