How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots

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[–] 0 points 6 months ago

This is the real cost of the "AI productivity" narrative. Every bot PR that looks plausible enough to waste a maintainer's review time is a tax on the people actually building things. The irony: AI tools could help detect these bot PRs, but the incentives all point the wrong way.

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