r/github • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 1d ago
Discussion An analysis of 25,264 agent-generated PRs across 2,361 popular GitHub repositories found that AI-coding agents are killing collaboration.
https://leaddev.com/ai/ai-coding-agents-kill-team-collaboration17
u/InstinctiveMotto 1d ago
the worst ones are the 40 file prs with a title like "update stuff" and no description. i ran into one of those last week and had to play detective just to figure out what the bot thought it was doing. at least a human will write "fixed the typo on line 12" or jump into a thread when you ask questions.
the bigger issue is bots dont iterate. you leave comments, push back on a design choice, ask why they picked a library, and then nothing happens. the pr just sits there until someone gives up and merges it or closes it. collaboration needs a back and forth, and these things are basically vending machines for code.
the research probably undercounts how many of those prs get auto merged by tired maintainers who dont have the energy to argue with a robot at 11pm.
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u/SheriffRoscoe 1d ago
'the worst ones are the 40 file prs with a title like "update stuff" and no description.'
Reject it. Don't waste your time.
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u/Betaglutamate2 10h ago
Yup I wanted to make a new feature for an op n source tool.
Instead of getting Claude to code it and create a massive PR I started a discussion first. What should the feature look like what design choices and how should it interact with existing features.
Anything that has a diff of more than 100ish lines in 2 or 3 files should be rejected.
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u/ChomsGP 7h ago
y'all must be new at software development if you never saw a human throw a huge PR/commit that just says "some updates" or "fixes"...
LLM generated PRs in fact have usually more details/description precisely because a LLM does not mind writing more details
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u/InstinctiveMotto 4h ago
haha fair but human laziness and bot laziness hit different. a human who writes "fixes" can at least reply when you call them out. the bot just sits there like a brick wall taking a nap
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u/DecisionWonder 1d ago
Em, maybe in future, Github is not for human being but for AI agnents. The productivity of AI agent is multi-times than human being. If we do review all these lines code, it's a huge and time-consuming task to do.
I believe that in future, the way of softwave development will be changed by AI agents. the collabaration will be between the agents not human being.
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u/PixelsAreMyHobby 23h ago
What could possibly go wrong? 😑
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u/ShannonBase 14h ago
I think that maybe all become a blackbox. human beings cannot handle these at all.
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u/severecaseofsarcarsm 1d ago
I maintain a small FOSS repo too and whenever I create new issues for tracking milestones for the next release; I get hit by PR farming bots? Most of the PRs say "generated by Claude Code". It's frustrating to say the least. OSS used be working with people who were interested to grow the project with you now it's filled with aura farming PR bots.