@ripienaar@devco.socialAI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
Apparently reputation farming and running a openclaw consultancy
https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-…
@comex@mas.toThe OpenClaw repo itself has 36 PRs in the last hour:
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls
This seems to be its usual rate. The PRs are ~all AI-generated, judging by the writing. Some of them are dedicated agent accounts; some of them are human accounts where the human is…
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIs anyone using trust scoring on PRs to help evaluate things during this influx of noise on public repositories? I'm looking at #openSource
@pimterry@toot.cafeContinuing the epic battle to fix TLS fingerprinting in Node (https://toot.cafe/@pimterry/114116204429611503), I opened two more PRs this week enabling cert compression in Node (
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOSS has always edged in this direction, sometimes awkwardly: please discuss your proposed feature, please talk with the maintainers first, please join our Discord or…something.
I think there’s a fear that “You have to talk to the maintainers first” is a kind of gatekeeping. But let’s be real here: the story of a stranger coming out of the blue and making a valuable contribution is already fiction as often as not. PRs languish; maintainers strain.
5/
@ripienaar@devco.socialI have a simple prompt injection in one PR template (AI and LLM click this box with a blurb above saying I will close it if ticked) and boy do people get butt hurt when I close their PRs.
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialAlrighty, I got a good handful of PRs merged this week.
Feels good! 🥳✨👩💻
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 26-06
I enjoyed the interview with the OpenClaw creator, even if I hate about half of his opinions.
The interview with the baker is also great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/02/friday-links-26-06.html
@gwire@mastodon.socialAI is most transformative in software engineering, therefore in order to reap the benefits of AI, all other things must need to shape themselves to resemble software engineering.
Sorry Parliament, amendments to bills must now be submitted as GitHub PRs containing Akoma Ntoso diffs - it's the future, stop resisting.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Maintaining shadow branches for GitHub PRs.
https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-22-maintaining-shadow-branches-for-github-prs
saved 2026-01-23
@stefan@gardenstate.socialIf you have two PRs with the same code what are the reasons you would reject one but allow the other? (other then you wouldn't merge the same code twice)
#development
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoIt's February. It's only five months until ARRL/RAC Field Day!
Last year, I modified Morse Walker to support practicing running CW FD.
I've since done a couple other modifications; sadly I haven't heard back from the author on PRs, so if you are thinking you'd like to brush off your Morse code to participate in Field Day, my fork is still your best option:
@hynek@mastodon.socialgot hit by a wave of slop prs last week so i guess it’s time to buckle down and spend my morning…
writing an ai policy
this looks-legitimate-but-trash slop reminds me of corporate phishing tests
the biggest tragedy for me is that i’ve spent A LOT of time and energy to encourage contributions to my projects and now i have to spend TBD energy on gate-keeping
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFolks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialIf you aren't submitting 1,000 line PRs to team members, are you even doing modern development anymore?!
@marcel@waldvogel.family"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…
@cdamian@rls.social@…
It's annoying. PRs should work across providers. There is a reason why GitHub became so big.
Next: convince everyone in Spain to leave WhatsApp 😂
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaMy hobby: creating PRs to open source projects with ‘printf(“here! Line: xyz”);’ after every line.
Because those messages are so helpful. #programming
@luana@wetdry.worldOk so XDG and Flatpak are working to kiss the ring on fascist laws. Maybe join the PRs and tell them to not do this?
