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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 5h

DHH is doing what we call in the industry "the Shit Sandwich" - shit - AI slop - shit

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 6h

I also added the "good first issue" and "💰 bounty" labels. Let's see if someone comes

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 11h

Not A text area, but THE text area. I like it.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 21h

Since everyone is closing PR contributions, I am inviting everyone to spam my project with your best PR slop and impossible issues, so I can test new features against AI spam. I offer the repo; you bring the tokens. It's a win-win.

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GitHub - MatteoGabriele/agentscan: Automation pattern detection for open source maintainers

Automation pattern detection for open source maintainers - MatteoGabriele/agentscan

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 05/10/2026

Don't get me wrong: It's creating a lot of issues, eroding trust, driving honest developers away, and pushing people a bit too far. I'm more upset at platforms and companies than at AI on its own.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 05/10/2026

I had the opposite experience, and I also like a good challenge. If you have lost your OSS-drive while doing solo projects, I would consider joining some community projects. There's still plenty to do that really doesn't involve all this AI noise.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 05/10/2026

ah ok. Didn't know about that setting.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 05/10/2026

Every time I had this issue, I was like ok fair enough, but also damn it!

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

My spider senses were tingling 🤣

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

Well but you need to auto-close PRs if they are not in the list, otherwise you're back at the beginning. But if the slop is not overwhelming the manual also works

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah you can make a specific template, then once that's created, you can look at the issue and if you approve it the user gets added to the list, if close, it doesn't. You wouldn't have to touch a line of code. Less work.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

That's a good one. I never know how effective that can be, but I also know that a lot of people do not want an AGENTS, a CLAUDE or any kind of AI-related files in their projects.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

How many tokens you have left? Do you have enough for a cake recipe?

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

Also by default only leaves a label on the PR so it's not really intrusive. You can also add a separate comment with a full analysis or even add that inside the PR description itself for less noise.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

This project is an ongoing experiment; if you decide to give it a shot, take it with a big ol' grain of salt.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

Another Sunday, another experiment. Interlinked tries to flag AI-written PR descriptions by looking for patterns found in PRs from known automated accounts and in descriptions written before AI. They don't give us the tools; we try to make a new one.

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GitHub - MatteoGabriele/interlinked-action: GitHub Action that flags agent-written PR descriptions

GitHub Action that flags agent-written PR descriptions - MatteoGabriele/interlinked-action

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

sort of mini OSS cover letter ahahahhaha

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 04/10/2026

What if a GitHub action in a project required developers to introduce themselves using a built-in issue template before they could open PRs? If you do and it is accepted, you're added to a project list that lets you open PRs; otherwise, your PR is closed automatically. 🤔

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 03/10/2026

You're cooking! I got an invite code, and it looks really nice and super fast.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Don't waste your time ahahhahah Also funny I have a bachelor degree in oil painting 😂

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Did you take this example because of DHH rant about painting and photography? Because he's wrong.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Why did u do it before AI? Corporate always wants to ship. That's also old news.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

A photo is only a snapshot of reality. Painting is much more complex and often very far from reality. Using coding agents for 100% of the work is just project management.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

You are confusing painting with photography.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

We will no longer take pride in ourselves because people will thank us, even though we didn't do anything. This isn't about the medium you use for your photography; it's about letting someone else take the pictures for you. Literally.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

My spider senses are tingling. AI slop has been detected.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

I think, regardless of the intent, I want to raise a glass to this genius. Way to go! Love it!

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

We can. We can do pretty much anything we want, especially if we work collectively. We need some good old sharing of hideous ideas that become great experiments. The stupidest Sunday project can actually become a useful tool.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Let's not forget that GitHub's CEO left a year ago. They are part of the Microsoft CoreAI division, which clearly shows.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

I agree. It's that the number of people contributing dramatically increased without being able to adjust the number of maintainers needed to review it. Main issue is that tools like GitHub are focused on causing the volume and not on how to manage it.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, they added the max PRs opened per user per project option, but you can still open 50 drafts, so that didn't really change anything, in my opinion.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Review bandwidth also depends on code volume. Code volume went up by the so-called "10x", but the number of maintainers didn't. GitHub has no maintainer queue: anyone can open as many PRs and issues as they like, whenever they like. It's a fire hose.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

That, for me, would be the normal and organic evolution of any project: open source or not. The issue right now is that the initial drive gets consumed by a flood of spam, mostly from AI agents.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Now that knowledge is abused for all sorts of purposes: for fame (look at me, I have contributed to x and y), for stats (hire me, I have maintained x and y), for money (bounty for x and y), and so on.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

I think, for the most part, the knowledge gap was keeping contributions at bay, and there was a kind of natural selection. It wasn't perfect, but it was manageable. That gap is artificially gone. Literally.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Lots of projects are closing the door to external contributors. The "source" is open, but that's basically all that's left. Managing humans isn't the problem these days, but it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation since humans send agents in the first place.

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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 02/10/2026

Too many people are giving up on OSS. We are problem-solvers, so let's solve the problem. Together.

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