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True. Atleast write your own text in dms. Its frustrating when you read whole AI written para , that could have been wrapped in a line or two 😭

If I smell AI I just close it. It's a layer of the author's workflow I don't want to see or deal with. Fake it until you make it. I might start missing those good old everything-in-the-title-skip-template contributions.

It's the replies that really get me. If I've asked a question, I want to hear from the human. If I want to hear from an agent I can ask one myself.

I’m sure people are reading this and are like: “is this about me?” … Is this about me? 🫨

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Auto generated PR descriptions look like a high school student strying to reach the minimum word count on an essay

Yup exactly this! And often the answer is no, unfortunately. Same benefit of writing things down on paper, it forces you to understand it better

maybe you should start minding? if it's OSS contribution i'm afraid people can always game their stats, and letting an agent do it for them while having the least possible personal involvement is the current easiest way to game it

i often just skip reading the description now and go straight to the code. it does a better job of explaining 😅

Unfortunately you have to understand what's in the PR to write your own descriptions and replies, so you do mind if people use agents to create PRs

It's not about the output method, it's about the output itself, and how it will be consumed. ("AI-generated" and "AI-slop" don't have to be the same thing.) What's appropriate in one repo may not work for another. Contributor's guides are more important than ever.