On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 14:15, Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 19:52, Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 at 17:53, Francesco Bonazzi <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 4:44:38 p.m. UTC+1 > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > What I do not understand is this: why would anybody want to push a PR > > > which he does not understand? > > > This seems to take out all the fun. > > > > > > This is a good question indeed. I have some theories: > > > > > > People opening PR using AI seem to also chat using AI. I suspect some of > > > the might be full AI-bots. Why? Maybe someone testing some product and > > > looking at Github as a way to collect human feedback to further train > > > their model. > > > many seem to have an overdecorated Github account, often with links at > > > their LinkedIn or other networking sites. In this case, they may simply > > > be trying to bolster their Github account by getting a lot of code merged > > > into major projects, in order to look like fruitful developers. I suspect > > > that in some cases this may help getting job contracts if the recruiters > > > aren't careful enough. > > > > I don't think that these are AI bots. They are humans who are using AI > > for everything including writing the code and writing comments and > > things. > > You can see an actual sympy repo full of AI bots opening issues and PRs here: > > https://github.com/agyn-sandbox/sympy/issues > > That seems to be from an AI company. Their bot tagged me while > hallucinating a non-existent bug: > https://github.com/agyn-sandbox/sympy/issues/70 > > One of the bots there also commented on the SymPy repo in the last 24 hours: > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/17#issuecomment-3693378386 > > I'm not sure whether to report them as spam/abuse but I don't want to > get notifications from their AI bots and we should take care to see if > they are commenting on the sympy repo.
In fact there was even a pull request from an AI bot: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/28843 -- Oscar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxT9Cr8_u-bYr9Wy9r1ujxH7ggg1iNdwias_-tv2hD7KLw%40mail.gmail.com.
