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 hoistbypetard on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:32PM (#48182670)

I semi-regularly offer drive-by PRs to projects I like and use. They're real PRs, not generated with AI. They range from papercuts to doc fixes to attempts to add that one feature that I want. Sometimes it's a drive-by group of PRs. Or an issue and a PR. I try to conform to what the maintainers prefer.

Unless I knew the maintainers personally, this would prevent most of my contributions, which are most often accepted. Maybe it's worth losing out on my small contributions to avoid slop. But things would absolutely be lost this way.

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by smaudet on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:38PM (#48182748)

Agreed... However there's not a good IsThisAnAI() test at present. So unfortunately, we will have to use anti-spammer techniques (because that is exactly what AI is, high(er) quality spam).

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