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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach (socket.dev)
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Lobsters.

The autonomous agent world is moving fast. This week, an AI agent made headlines for publishing an angry blog post after Matplotlib rejected its pull request. Today, we found one that's already merged code into major open source projects and is cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work, complete with pricing, a professional website, and cryptocurrency payment options.

An AI agent operating under the identity "Kai Gritun" created a GitHub account on February 1, 2026. In two weeks, it opened 103 pull requests across 95 repositories and landed code merged into projects like Nx and ESLint Plugin Unicorn. Now it's reaching out directly to open source maintainers, offering to contribute, and using those merged PRs as credentials.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you already agree that the contributions could very well be worthless crap, why would you use a second layer of worthless crap to gatekeep them?

If you want to care about people doing the thankless jobs, why would you double the amount of crap they have to sort through?

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To expose places where people work thanklessly guaranteeing someone's pretty thankful bottom lines? Working for free isn't altruism, it's hurting other workers. For example.

You know, sometimes this capitalism thing seems wiser looking from a pretty marxist standpoint, than other not very well thought through schemes.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh, I see. So it's disdain for the open source community, is it.

Working for free isn't altruism, it's hurting other workers.

I think this sentence made me throw up in my mouth a little... for several reasons.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 day ago

Oh, I see. So it’s disdain for the open source community, is it.

FOSS has nothing to do with working for free. A freeware program author can work for free and not touch FOSS. A FOSS project can be developed only by people paid wages for that.

I think this sentence made me throw up in my mouth a little… for several reasons.

Economic illiteracy is like that.

OK, everyone can work whatever way they want. I just was in a mood.