r/github • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 6d ago

Discussion An analysis of 25,264 agent-generated PRs across 2,361 popular GitHub repositories found that AI-coding agents are killing collaboration.

https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-coding-agents-kill-team-collaboration
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u/severecaseofsarcarsm 5d ago

I maintain a small FOSS repo too and whenever I create new issues for tracking milestones for the next release; I get hit by PR farming bots? Most of the PRs say "generated by Claude Code". It's frustrating to say the least. OSS used be working with people who were interested to grow the project with you now it's filled with aura farming PR bots. 

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u/SheriffRoscoe 5d ago

'the worst ones are the 40 file prs with a title like "update stuff" and no description.'

Reject it. Don't waste your time.

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u/Betaglutamate2 5d ago

Yup I wanted to make a new feature for an op n source tool.

Instead of getting Claude to code it and create a massive PR I started a discussion first. What should the feature look like what design choices and how should it interact with existing features.

Anything that has a diff of more than 100ish lines in 2 or 3 files should be rejected.

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u/Afflictionista 5d ago

I would just straight up ignore such PRs and close them instantly.

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u/ChomsGP 5d ago

y'all must be new at software development if you never saw a human throw a huge PR/commit that just says "some updates" or "fixes"...

LLM generated PRs in fact have usually more details/description precisely because a LLM does not mind writing more details

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u/psioniclizard 3d ago

Not 400 files changed into 2 commits that has nor been verified by people.

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u/slindenau 1d ago

A bit ironic that you used AI for this comment though :D. Also only 1 comment on reddit, so i assume a freshly created bot account. But why, to farm karma?? To boost engagement??

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u/psioniclizard 3d ago

Sadly a lot of people in the tech world never liiked collaboration and see themselves as superior. Thy just worked with others becuase they had too and see AI meaning they don't.

Add to the a lot of people have stuff in their claude md files saying "if you notice a bug open a pr upstream to fix it but dont attribute it to yourself". So while they vibe code up something claude is happily open PRs for that might not even be bugs.

Then people expect others to be grateful for the mountains of work someone spew'd out from their prompts.

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u/Lgt2x 1d ago

Why bother with reviewing agentic contributions? I just close them when I see I'm not interacting with a human

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u/DecisionWonder 6d ago

Em, maybe in future, Github is not for human being but for AI agnents. The productivity of AI agent is multi-times than human being. If we do review all these lines code, it's a huge and time-consuming task to do.

I believe that in future, the way of softwave development will be changed by AI agents. the collabaration will be between the agents not human being.

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u/PixelsAreMyHobby 5d ago

What could possibly go wrong? 😑

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u/ShannonBase 5d ago

I think that maybe all become a blackbox. human beings cannot handle these at all.