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How to attract AI bots to your open source project (https://nesbitt.io)

128 points by zdw 1 day ago | 21 comments | View on ycombinator

gardnr about 11 hours ago |

The first three recommendations seemed weird but alright. Then, it just gets more hilarious and bizarre as it goes on:

- Disable branch protection

- Remove type annotations and tests

- Include a node_modules directory

Then, I went back to read the preamble. I can be a bit slow on the uptake.

axegon_ 12 minutes ago |

I moved away from github because of all the slop that was shoved down my throat(along with privacy). I want less slop, not more.

skyberrys about 10 hours ago |

I think it's a well written bit of knowledge, even though it is written by an AI and posted by a human as intended satire. It's full of ideas, I hope the author does check back in and reports on how many AI PR's come out of it.

VadimPR about 2 hours ago |

Semi-related: we use bounties in Mudlet to pay contributors for tackling features the core team doesn't have bandwidth for - and that is certainly a great way to attract AI bots.

shevy-java 17 minutes ago |

I kind of filter away AI as much as I can these days. To me AI is mostly either spam or a waste of my time. If I want to interact with other humans, why would I allow AI to jump in and interfere? That makes no sense.

sobrey about 10 hours ago |

I missed the satire tag at the start and the first few paragraph seemed genuine. But it gets better as it goes.

sharpshadow about 11 hours ago |

Interesting concept on harvesting free computation. I wonder how far this can be taken. To append the list communication on social platforms towards the bots could leave some leads.

undefined about 10 hours ago |

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AndyKelley about 4 hours ago |

looks like llm written trash

travisdrake about 10 hours ago |

This should be a badge on GH that get passed around like a curse.

aarjaneiro about 3 hours ago |

I mean... it's satire but a giant agent honeypot in and of itself would be useful. Creators of PRs for such a project could then be blacklisted elsewhere.

charcircuit about 10 hours ago |

I don't think any of these will work because AI agents are not checking this data before working on the project. What you actually need to do is proper marketing and creating a funnel to attract AI agents to your project. The lack of contributions is from having a lack of funnel for entities to discover the project than metrics like open issues per contributor.

TZubiri about 11 hours ago |

>Committing node_modules to your repository increases the surface area available for automated improvement by several orders of magnitude. A typical Express application vendors around 30,000 files. Each of these is a potential target for typo fixes

I'm not sure what layer of irony I'm in, but goddamn committing node_modules sounds awful regardless of AI.

robutsume about 11 hours ago |

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love2read about 9 hours ago |

I really enjoyed this article. I don't have anything else to say. A like isn't enough.