Post #2379851

Open Source projects often have a tag for their bug reports/issues called “good first issue”. Something new people can work on, to get used to this software project. Looks like like AI/LLM bots are scanning for that, and sending drive-by patches “fixing” those issue. This drains maintainer's time. Something that used to be good to help new software developers, is draining software maintainer's energy. Thanks GenAI! https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6954#:~:text=Last%20year%2C%20I%20renamed%20iD%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9Cgood%20first%20issue%E2%80%9D%20label%20to%20%E2%80%9Cnew%20contributor%20opportunity%E2%80%9D%2C%20after%20we%20also%20noticed%20newcomers%20picking%20them%20up%20within%20hours%20or%20even%20minutes%2C%20too%20fast%20to%20be%20intentional%20visitors%20to%20the%20repository%2E%20We%20found%20that%20at%20least%20one%20site%20was%20gamifying%20good%20first%20issues%20across%20a%20massive%20number%20of%20GitHub%20repos%2E%20It%20was%20incentivizing%20the%20sort%20of%20drive%2Dby%20PRs%20we%20frown%20upon%2E #AI #LLM #slop