I think issuing 20+ #AI generated PRs in a timespan of 24h can be considered the open source equivalent of a #DoS attack right? Sounds like a reason to ban without explanation?
https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/pulls
That would be the sensible thing to do, but I’m not sensible so I’m going to overcook and probably spend hours this weekend writing an article in which I explain the hostility of this use of AI. Because I want to fix the world.
@zef Are these PRs related to an existing issue, or are these more "finding" an issue and then "fixing" it? Not that it makes it any less frustrating, but the latter feels significantly more harmful.
@ectopod some are supposedly fixing real issues, yes: https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/pull/1750
https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/pull/1747
Always obscure ones, though. And I think a bunch more come from what I suspect are prompts like "fix some common security issues in this project"
Ok, cooled down a bit. Closed all PRs and left a reasonable note (IMO): https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/pull/1750#issuecomment-3694069185
@zef love how a well written "no" makes the discussion more productive (at least his response sounds quite reasonable)
@zef words well chosen, AI patches really don't take the real world into account where people will have to deal with the resulting issues.
@toolsontech this is one of many unintuitive reasons why AI may actually slow software development down.
@zef From what I have seen the benefits are mostly when a capable person uses it to do busywork. The drawbacks usually happen when supervision is gone and it's all automated.
And I'm not even starting on the security risks that are currently vibe coded
@zef also really obnoxious to include those server tests in everything, even if they don't matter for the PR at hand. Eg 1749 doesn't include claude as co-author for the principal commit and seems reasonable to my (non-go programmer) eyes but i would never merge it because of the 950 lines of unrelated server tests
@zef@hachyderm.io do you know what is the motivation of the issuer? I'm honestly curious.
