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Your point about rereading without ai makes so much sense.

The economics of it have changed, human nature hasn’t. Before 2023 (?) people also submitted garbage PRs just to be able to add “contributed to X” to their CV. It’s just become a lot cheaper.

>>stepha+(OP)
Let's not forget the Hacktober Fest, the scourge of open source for over a decade now, the driver of low-quality "contribution" spam by hordes of people doing it for a goddamn free t-shirt.

No, this problem isn't fundamentally about AI, it's about "social" structure of Github and incentives it creates (fame, employment).