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Show HN: I submitted 316 AI-generated PRs to open source

An experiment submitting 316 AI-generated pull requests to open source projects reveals the strain on maintainers, the rise of behavioral detection, and a proposed GitHub Action to automatically filter low-quality AI contributions. The author argues for structural effort signals over content-based detection.

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Show HN: I submitted 316 AI-generated PRs to open source
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  • 316 AI PRs were submitted; most were rejected, one was merged. Maintainers used behavioral cues like em dashes and velocity to detect AI. A GitHub Action to auto-close AI PRs was released.
  • The problem is low-effort submissions, not AI per se. Effort-based filters can catch both human and AI slop equally.

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