[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Various forms of tools, colloquially known as "AI", have beenrapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. Manydevelopers are embracing LLM tools for code creation and review. Some project maintainers complain about suffering from a deluge of slop-laden pullrequests, as well as fabricated bug and securityreports. Too many projects are reeling from scraperbot attacks thateffectively DDoS important infrastructure. But an AI bot flaming anopen-source maintainer was not on our bingo card for 2026; that seemeda bit too far-fetched. However, it appears that is just what happenedrecently after a project rejected a bot-driven pull request.