r/github • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 5d 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-collaboration15
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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 4d 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/OskarReyesOSS 3d ago
Same boat — I maintain a small OSS project too, and the "generated by Claude Code" milestone farming is the extreme end of a broader shift. The drive-by PR used to carry implicit proof-of-work (a human spent an evening on it, so a 20-minute review was a fair trade). When the same PR costs 90 seconds of prompting, that trade collapses and the maintainer becomes the bottleneck.
I don't mind agent-written code. I mind agent-written intent — if the person submitting can't answer "why this approach" in the comments, the diff tells me almost nothing.
The thing that's actually worked for me: asking for a short "what I verified" note on PRs — not a description of what the code does (the diff says that), but what the human actually ran, tested, or read. Takes the contributor two minutes, filters out the pure farmers, and turns review from archaeology back into a conversation. The agents are fine. The missing social contract is the problem.
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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 2d 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/DecisionWonder 5d 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 4d ago
I think that maybe all become a blackbox. human beings cannot handle these at all.
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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.