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Re:Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness by swiftcoder on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:57AM (#47790911)
> Combined with cancer message on top it made me think some LLM "agent" is trying different tricks because it was prompted to achieve maximum stars and forks. I feel shitty for saying this but how not to be cynical because literally that's what we degraded to thanks to "ai".

AI might increase the volume of shitty things on the internet, but it's not like GitHub accounts weren't anonymous before AI, and it's not like people weren't using scammy tactics to boost their star count before AI.

If the fear of AI turn us into worse people in our interactions, that's kind of on us, not AI

Re:Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness by throwaway290 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:51PM (#47797033)
An anonymous account isn't the same as bot account. Number of obvious bot accounts jumped 1000% in the last 4 years or so.