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A comment on Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?.

Re:Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests? by enumjorge on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:42AM (#35358849)
> We do not know what the end goal of the person was but we confronted the person and closed the pull requests.

Maybe this was a naïve attempt at inflating their GitHub numbers? Some people use those as a credibility measure when applying to jobs or getting clients.

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Re:Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests? by sudo_navendu on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:18PM (#35359382)
Now they clearly won't because we will be reporting them to GitHub.
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Re:Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests? by alephxyz on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:03PM (#35359177)
Hacktoberfest should be interesting this year
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Re:Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests? by joshxyz on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:04AM (#35369110)
oh god not again haha
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