| Before this event, I've has another encounter with GitHub.
What happened is that an AI coding assistance startup seemed to have created bots that would: 1. find new GitHub issues on random repos 2. fork the repo 3. make a commit, trying to implement whatever was requested in the issue 4. reply to the issue with a link to the commit, indemnifying themselves of the code quality (which was very poor), and linking to their platform I reported a few of those issues to GitHub. To me, the problem seemed almost obvious: 1. they were using sketchy GitHub usernames 2. there was evidence of similar replies having been mass-deleted in the past 3. some of the issues also seemed to have been opened by sketchy users GitHub took a few days to reply and didn't seem to understand how bad the situation was, and basically allowed them to continue. I don't expect to have to spend a lot of time writing an elaborate "criminal case" to convince GitHub that they are allowing their platform to be abused by these bots. |