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I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots (glama.ai)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it's currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of (bad) contributions. >99.9% of them are invalid for other reasons anyway. Maybe a good solution will emerge over time.

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[+] -24 points 7 months ago (8 children)

This is one good article. I guess humans are now mostly redundant in open source. Bots can do everything themself, write code, submit PR, merge them and even blog about it. Time to book a place for myself in a graveyard.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    Instead of a handful of quality PRs per day, the volume jumped to 20, 50, or more. At first I was happy. Then I started noticing patterns. The quality wasn't there.

    Blindly promoting the LLMs without checking the source? Bot or human it makes you wonder if your contributions are worth keeping around

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You're probably exaggerating sarcastically?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, but in each joke there is bit of truth. Open Source have to change. Open Source code written by LLMs is still open source, but it drastically different from current one.
    Instead of spending time to "scratch the itch and help others in the process" - now people should give money to corps to use LLM to to do same.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Honestly I have no idea what you're on about. But this

    Open Source have to change.

    sounds a bit too opinionated to me, with nothing to back it up. In other words: utter BS.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Then read my post again. Contributing and writing opens source is no longer about how much time one willing to spend on it, it is about how much money someone willing to spend on LLMs which will write code. And all these money will go to AI overlords.

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