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Over the weekend, a person armed with a coding agent opened **479** pull requests against the Password Manager Resources project. As open source maintainers, what are we supposed to do about this?
All of the justification prose is written in clear AI dialect, with awkward phrasing. The normal benefit of the doubt I am able to give to contributors of the project, including that the changes they’re submitted are motivated by something that makes sense, are out the window.
@rmondello not just a slop grenade but a slop cluster bomb
@rmondello cc @glyph who has a lot of words for dealing with this in the Twisted projects
@rmondello I agree with the crowd here: block/ban the user, for a start.
"You couldn't be bothered properly reviewing any of this, so neither can I."
@rmondello personally I would close them all saying “this is untenable. Please reconsider how you plan to support this project in a healthy and meaningful manner.”
@rmondello That sounds like a maliciously-motivated denial of service attack aimed at the human running your project. Block aggressively.
@cstross @rmondello The problem is, it's probably not. Slop-heads mostly really do think that this sort of behavior is "helpful". Which isn't to say that blocking isn't the right call.
@rmondello just say “thanks but we’re going to have to… pass”
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@rmondello Looks like it’s still going, new one opened 2 minutes ago…..I really bet this person probably thinks they’re being helpful.