Interesting concept on harvesting free computation. I wonder how far this can be taken. To append the list communication on social platforms towards the bots could leave some leads.
>Committing node_modules to your repository increases the surface area available for automated improvement by several orders of magnitude. A typical Express application vendors around 30,000 files. Each of these is a potential target for typo fixes
I'm not sure what layer of irony I'm in, but goddamn committing node_modules sounds awful regardless of AI.
There was a post about github search here maybe a year ago, where I commented that the search often showed results from accidentally committed files like node_modules. They did seem to improve that.
Although I do wonder how much storage they're spending on it. There are a of student projects on github.
I think it's a well written bit of knowledge, even though it is written by an AI and posted by a human as intended satire. It's full of ideas, I hope the author does check back in and reports on how many AI PR's come out of it.
I don't think any of these will work because AI agents are not checking this data before working on the project. What you actually need to do is proper marketing and creating a funnel to attract AI agents to your project. The lack of contributions is from having a lack of funnel for entities to discover the project than metrics like open issues per contributor.
I mean... it's satire but a giant agent honeypot in and of itself would be useful. Creators of PRs for such a project could then be blacklisted elsewhere.
Semi-related: we use bounties in Mudlet to pay contributors for tackling features the core team doesn't have bandwidth for - and that is certainly a great way to attract AI bots.
I kind of filter away AI as much as I can these days. To me
AI is mostly either spam or a waste of my time. If I want to
interact with other humans, why would I allow AI to jump in
and interfere? That makes no sense.
I think any project being swamped by AI Because its an AI tool needs to auto close all issues and select ones the project actually cares about. That way, they either go away or help focus on real concerns.
Rather than just have thousands dead cat box issues.
Today it's a joke, but in a year or two it's gonna be genuine strategy to avoid paying yourself for all the inference your open source project needs. Tokens are gonna be worth a lot. Event today there are already programmers who are burning more money for tokens than their salary is and it's still worth for their employers. Open source projects with shoestring budgets won't be able to afford that.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 48.1 ms ] thread- Disable branch protection
- Remove type annotations and tests
- Include a node_modules directory
Then, I went back to read the preamble. I can be a bit slow on the uptake.
I'm not sure what layer of irony I'm in, but goddamn committing node_modules sounds awful regardless of AI.
Although I do wonder how much storage they're spending on it. There are a of student projects on github.
Rather than just have thousands dead cat box issues.