• Various forms of tools, colloquially known as “AI”, have been rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. • Many developers are embracing LLM tools for code creation and review. • Some project maintainers complain about suffering from a deluge of slop-laden pull requests, as well as fabricated bug and security reports . • Too many projects are reeling from scraperbot attacks that effectively DDoS important infrastructure. • But an AI bot flaming an open-source maintainer was not on our bingo card for 2026; that seemed a bit too far-fetched. • However, it appears that is just what happened recently after a project rejected a bot-driven pull request.
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