We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by optionalsquid on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:20PM (#48181827)

I don't have a better solution, unfortunately, but it doesn't seem seem to like the spam problem has been solved. It has just been moved from pull requests to commits:

Currently, more than 10% of all commits in the archestra repo are essentially noise (369 of 3521 commits), accounting for more than half of all commits in the last month (303 of 578 commits).

But maybe (probably) the amount of such commits will go down over time, compared to the growing amounts of AI slop

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by ildari on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:55PM (#48182207)

As those commits were made from our system they don't create any noise for us, as PR/issues/email notification do. We only include real people who could solve the captcha and their input is mostly valuable

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