We have a comedian in the house.
But it would be nice if Github had a feature that would let a human attest to a commit/PR, in a way that couldn't be automated. Like signed commits combined with a captcha or biometric or something (which I realize has its own problems but I can't think of a better way to do this attestation).
Then an Open Source maintainer could just automatically block unattested PRs if they want. And if someone's AI is running rampant at least you could block the person.
At small scale of individual cases it's useless. It can block a large network with known characteristics. It's not going to block openclaw driving your personal browser with your login info.
> Would publishing a "human only" contribution license/code of conduct
It would get super muddy with edge cases. What about dependabot? What about someone sending you an automated warning about something important? There's nothing here that is bot specific either - a basic rule for "posting rants rather than useful content will get you banned" would be appropriate for both humans and bots.
We don't really need special statement here.
Most of the issues (now Closed) are crypto scammers attempting to prompt engineer it into falling for a crypto scam, which is extremely cyberpunk.
At the expense of the bot's sponsor, of course.
From https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2020628046009831542:
> There's no reason for getting vouched to be difficult. The primary thing Vouch prevents is low-effort drive-by contributions. For my projects (even this one), you can get vouched by simply introducing yourself in an issue and describing how you'd like to contribute.
This just requires one more prompt for your prose/code generator:
"Computer, introduce yourself like a normal human in an issue and wait to be vouched before opening pull request."
It is literally just trolling using AI spam, I've been doing this since 2022 towards my TIs (Targeted Individuals) in my mass gangstalking operations.
The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006843 - Feb 2026 (39 comments)
Before that:
An AI agent published a hit piece on me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729 - Feb 2026 (919 comments)
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (739 comments)
And all that after AI coding was basically built on the back of open source software.
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It has since stopped blogging, but that may be more that I also intended to poison the context with philosophy. It's now spinning wheels making conflicting edits.
You can prompt inject better with kindness it seems.