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If AI generated pull requests become a popular thing we'll see the end of public bug trackers.

(not because bugs will be gone - because the cost of reviewing the PR vs the benefit gained to the project will be a substantial net loss)

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Not a chance. If AI-generated pull requests become popular, GitHub will automatically offer them in response to opened issues. Case in point: they already are popular for dependency upgrades.

And thus issues will no longer be opened

It’ll likely keep getting better, if it gets to 30-40% I’d say that’s a decent trade off. Also could you boost your chances by having the AI do a 2nd pass and double check the work? I’d be curious what the success rate of an LLM “determining whether a bug fix is valid” is

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