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Developer laments flood of duplicate AI-generated pull requests

Original: This is quite tragic... 4 out of these 5 pull requests achieve the same goal: some better, some worse, yet 3 of these 4

A software developer has criticised a wave of duplicate pull requests to an open-source project, noting that four of five submissions aim at the same fix and three share identical AI-generated code. They argue that promises AI would improve free and open-source software 'for free' ring hollow, calling the trend a betrayal of the open-source spirit and a burden on maintainers who must review near-identical machine-written patches.

Why now: Growing frustration among open-source maintainers over low-quality, duplicated AI-generated contributions.

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• This is quite tragic... 4 out of these 5 pull requests achieve the same goal: some better, some worse, yet 3 of these 4 PRs share the same AI-generated code. AI evangelists tell that OSS/FOSS would improve "for free", however I see a blasphemy to the open-source spirit for a… · voidanix@mastodon.cc · 2

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