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In a submission to OCaml, when asked why the files he submitted list someone else as an author he says,

    > Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.°

I find that sort of attitude terrifying.

° https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-35573...

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I cannot believe it's not trolling

Intentional or not its an interesting social experiment.

Yeah, either this guy's totally insane or it could even be somebody who's an AI skeptic who's just flooding projects with really dumb PRs just to show the risks and get people skeptical about the use of AI in open source (Takes on my folie hat)

That is a curious take. Open source projects were flooded by dumb PRs before AI too, so what would it prove?

that's a grifter doing grifting. there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past as a failure / grifter in many areas, running away with the money at the first problem

I'd be willing to put money that before LLMs they were all in ok crypto

When looking at this history here on HN, he started out in the poker world. I'm not sure if he played, but he wrote a poker engine or something. In my experience, the venn diagram for professional poker players, crypto enthusiasts and grifters have a lot of overlap.

But for this guy specifically there's practically complete radio silence during the crypto era. It's only recently with all the AI noise that he's become active here on HN again.

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