Yeah, there’s a ton of spam now. My view is that devs should use LLMs themselves to scan for issues, and then see if there’s anything to fix. But when it comes to accepting reports or patches, you kind of have to be selective. A lot of the time stuff LLMs will flag can be either hallucinated, or not really an issue. A lot of the reports come from automated systems that don’t really do any due diligence to figure out if something is an actual issue that needs addressing. So, I can definitely understand why projects might want to stop accepting random bug reports or code submissions going forward.
Yeah, honestly that’s the dumbest thing anybody could think of. It’s just a pure waste of resources that wastes people’s time. Even if these systems find genuine issues, the sheer volume of spam ensures nobody is going to actually look at them.
The next few years are going to be interesting because we’re moving into uncharted territory in a lot of ways. There’s a ton of hype around LLMs, and tons of people abusing this tech in every which way, and then there are useful nuggets where people figure out how to apply it effectively. Eventually we’ll need to figure out how to suppress the noise and how to start using these things in productive ways.
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Yeah, there’s a ton of spam now. My view is that devs should use LLMs themselves to scan for issues, and then see if there’s anything to fix. But when it comes to accepting reports or patches, you kind of have to be selective. A lot of the time stuff LLMs will flag can be either hallucinated, or not really an issue. A lot of the reports come from automated systems that don’t really do any due diligence to figure out if something is an actual issue that needs addressing. So, I can definitely understand why projects might want to stop accepting random bug reports or code submissions going forward.
Fully automated systems that file issues sound like a nightmare. I hope it’s easy to ban those as they appear.
Yeah, honestly that’s the dumbest thing anybody could think of. It’s just a pure waste of resources that wastes people’s time. Even if these systems find genuine issues, the sheer volume of spam ensures nobody is going to actually look at them.
I figured you’d probably be sympathetic.
The next few years are going to be interesting because we’re moving into uncharted territory in a lot of ways. There’s a ton of hype around LLMs, and tons of people abusing this tech in every which way, and then there are useful nuggets where people figure out how to apply it effectively. Eventually we’ll need to figure out how to suppress the noise and how to start using these things in productive ways.