Comment by kimjune01

2 days ago

the bottleneck for these open source repos is maintainer attention. AI seemingly does not yet improve that throughput.

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20k  2 days ago

I'd buy that if lots of high quality PRs were sitting around waiting to be merged, but they don't exist. There's barely any evidence that AI is even real in the open source world, other than the slop of course

  • kimjune01  2 days ago

    for small to medium sized bugs I managed to get a bit more than half of my PRs to get merged. ~90 PRs since May

    https://june.kim/speedrunning-open-source

    Verify yourself: { merged: search(query: "is:pr is:merged author:kimjune01 created:>2026-05-09T00:34:00Z", type: ISSUE) { issueCount } closed: search(query: "is:pr is:closed is:unmerged author:kimjune01 created:>2026-05-09T00:34:00Z", type: ISSUE) { issueCount } allTime: search(query: "is:pr is:merged author:kimjune01 -user:kimjune01", type: ISSUE) { issueCount } }

    • 20k  19 hours ago

      Man, truly absolutely gross to see this, this is some incredibly unethical engineering here. This is literally why people hate AI slop. Its not surprising to me that you didn't want to even write the post yourself

      >It cost me 53 merges, 63 closures, a billion Opus tokens, and eight account blocks

      I can't believe people think this is acceptable. You didn't fix any problems, you just managed to deliberately sneak slop past maintainers without their knowledge. There's no review by you here that any of the PRs actually fixed anything (presumably because software engineering is a learned skill), you just assume that the AI fixed the bugs without checking any of it apparently because.. you feel you're important?

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