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How to attract AI bots to your open source project

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by gardnr

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The first three recommendations seemed weird but alright. Then, it just gets more hilarious and bizarre as it goes on:
- 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.

by skyberrys

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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.

by sobrey

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I missed the satire tag at the start and the first few paragraph seemed genuine. But it gets better as it goes.

by sharpshadow

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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.

by VadimPR

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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.

by aarjaneiro

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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.

by travisdrake

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This should be a badge on GH that get passed around like a curse.

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by TZubiri

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>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.

by shevy-java

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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.

by axegon_

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I moved away from github because of all the slop that was shoved down my throat(along with privacy). I want less slop, not more.

by charcircuit

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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.

by scotty79

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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.

by love2read

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I really enjoyed this article. I don't have anything else to say. A like isn't enough.

by cyanydeez

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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.

by AndyKelley

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looks like llm written trash

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