Don't direct your agent to spam issues on others' open source projects
jedisct1 · x · 2026-09-01
Kenton Varda warns developers not to direct AI agents to submit issues or PRs on other people's open source projects. He notes that reviewing these "contributions" takes maintainers more time than it would take them to use their own agent to fix the bug, effectively creating work rather than helping.
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