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It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16728
53•nickswalker•1h ago

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minimaxir•51m ago
It's not wrong.
robertclaus•50m ago
Classic CI bug with a flair of LLM fun! We had something similar creep into our custom merge queue a few weeks back.
embedding-shape•48m ago
What "classic CI bug" makes bots talk with each other forever? Been doing CI for as long as I've been a professional developer, and not even once I've had that issue.

I've made "reply bots" before, bunch of times, first time on IRC, and pretty much the second or third step is "Huh, probably this shouldn't be able to reply to itself, then it'll get stuck in a loop". But that's hardly a "classic CI bug", so don't think that is what you're referring to here right?

btown•35m ago
If you’re making a bot in which there will be many sub-behaviors, it can be tempting to say “each sub-behavior should do whatever checks it needs, including basic checks for self-reply.”

And there lie dragons, because whether a tired or junior or (now) not-even-human engineer is writing new sub-behavior, it’s easy to assume that footguns either don’t exist or are prevented a layer up. There’s nothing more classic than that.

embedding-shape•25m ago
I'm kind of understanding, I think, but not fully. Regardless of how you structure this bot, there will be one entrypoint for the webhooks/callbacks, right? Even if there is sub-behaviours, the incoming event is passing through something, or are we talking about "sub-bots" here that are completely independent and use different GitHub users and so on?

Otherwise I still don't see how you'd end up with your own bot getting stuck in a loop replying to itself, but maybe I'm misunderstanding how others are building these sort of bots.

embedding-shape•49m ago
It's easy to miss, but in the middle of the page:

> 4609 remaining items

Seems gemini-cli and gemini-cli didn't understand who themselves were, so they though someone else added/removed the label, which it tried to correct, which the other then tried to correct, which the other...

Considering that that repository has what seems like ~10 longer term contributors, who probably get email notifications, together with a bunch of other people who get notifications about it, wonder how many emails were sent out because of this? If we just assume ten people get the emails, it's already 46K emails going out in under 24 hours...

Also, who pays for the inference of this gemini-cli? Clicking the "user" links to https://github.com/apps/gemini-cli, and it has a random GitHub user under "Developer", doesn't seem like it's a official Google project, so did someone pay for all of these inference calls here? That'd be a pretty sucky bill to pay...

TACD•31m ago
This isn't the first time it's happened, either. It's a pretty frequently recurring issue, in fact:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16725

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16732

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16734

embedding-shape•24m ago
All opened the 15th of January though, same as the instance linked in the submission. Seems maybe more accurate to say "widespread issue" rather than "frequent issue", as it seems to only have happened at one occasion, but it had time to spam many repositories on that day.
eviks•7m ago
> Thank you for your understanding! × 4609
alwa•49m ago
This issue seems to involve Gemini-cli[bot] squabbling with itself, adding and removing the label from the issue (leaving contradictory explanation comments to itself each time) for a good 4,600 rounds
add-sub-mul-div•38m ago
I don't lament the lack of flying cars because they don't seem practical, but I am disappointed that the future turned out to be this stupid.
ryandrake•18m ago
A similar issue made HN last week, same repo, where an AI bot was having the same kind of argument with itself over and over on an issue. Someone mentioned: This sort of thing is why RAM is 800 bucks now.
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