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by tawb 1121 days ago
Can you expand on that for me?

I know there are issues with open source projects getting a lot of spam PRs from folks trying to fluff their contributions on their profiles. I can definitely see that getting worse with AI systems, but I haven't been in these communities enough to be familiar with that pain myself.
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i2cmaster 1121 days ago
The people aren't so much the issue.

To deal with dependency churn, CVEs etc people have started setting up automatons to generate PRs. Those can generate a ton of them with minimal information about their real impact(unlike human PRs) and so going through them is not only a lot of work but the volume can be much greater. I'm certain people will begin adding LLM based automatons soon too.

Because of that I think the next big deal will be creating a separate class of changesets for machine suggested changes.

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tawb 1121 days ago
That's helpful context, thanks!

That's a super interesting take. The obvious thing is that the surface area of automation has improved and you can build a lot of tools to help with that, but you also need tooling to help deal with that overload of new automation - especially if your bandwidth is limited.

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