Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Is this a technology issue or a human one?
If you don’t understand the code your AI has written, don’t make a PR of it.
If your AI is making PRs without you, that’s even worse.
Basically, is technology the job we need here to manage the bad behavior of humans? Do we need to reach for the existing social tool to limit human behavior, law? Like we did with CopyLeft and the Tragedy Of The Commons.
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
This is happening a lot more these days, with OpenClaw and its copycats. I’m seeing it at work too - bots submitting merge requests overnight based on items in their owners’ todo lists.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
That is basically DDoSing open source project, which will not merge code without it being properly reviewed. Almost all open source projects are basically artisan code and the maintainers are the custodians of it.
dan@upvote.au 2 days ago
I definitely agree with you!
I’m using AI a little bit myself, but I’m an experienced developer and fully understand the code. I use it for tedious things, where I could do it myself but it’d take much longer. I don’t let AI write commit messages or PR descriptions for me.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Broadly, I see “AI” as part of enshitification. I think it’s brain rotting. It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it.