alt Hacker NewsI am wondering why people spam OSS with AI slop pull requests in the first place?
Are they really that delusional to think that their AI slop has any value to the project?
Do they think acting like a complete prick and increasing the burden for the maintainers will get them a job offer?
I guess interacting with a sycophantic LLM for hours truly rots the brain.
To spell it out: No, your AI generated code has zero value. Actually less than that because generating it helped destroy the environment.
If the problem could be solved by using an LLM and the maintainers wanted to, they could prompt it themselves and get much better results than you do because they actually know the code. And no AI will not help you "get into open source". You don't learn shit from spamming open source projects.
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You can then list on your profile that you’re a contributor to 1000 FOSS projects.
Before this it was junk like spacing changes
For one, it makes your Github profile look more attractive to employers (superficially, at least).
Sometimes, I'd guess, it's also because your Github profile has some kind of an advertisement.
I genuinely feel bad for you. At least it isnt difficult to make the transition to AI Agent coding. Even untrained people are able to do it.
At some point your manager is going to force you to AI code. At best you can try to find some healthcare or finance company that is too cheap to buy a machine that can locally run 400B models.