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AI-generated junk floods open source projects as monthly limits reset

Original: RE: https:// mas.to/@davidism/1172923990498 62157 The beginning of the month, when every junk producer's token limit res

David Lord, a maintainer of the Flask Python framework, is complaining about a fresh wave of AI-generated spam hitting open source repositories. He says the junk spikes at the start of each month when people's AI API token limits reset, and that closing pull requests only pushed spammers to open low-effort issues like "test issue, checking if my API access is broken". His post is striking a chord with maintainers facing the same problem.

Why now: Open source maintainers are increasingly frustrated by automated AI slop submissions tied to monthly usage resets.

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• RE: https:// mas.to/@davidism/1172923990498 62157 The beginning of the month, when every junk producer's token limit resets, and we get a whole new wave of junk. Turning off PRs helped a lot, but they just started opening "test issue, checking if my API access is broken", or… · davidism@mas.to · 10

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