Greptile likens AI pull-request spam to early-2000s email spam

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: Greptile blog, discussion
Summary: A Greptile post (183 points) argues that the wave of low-quality AI-generated pull requests now hitting open-source projects resembles the email-spam dynamics of the early 2000s, and discusses filtering approaches. It draws on the maintainer-burden theme around AI-generated contributions.
Why it matters: AI-generated PR and report spam is becoming a real maintainer-time cost, connecting to recent moves like curl pausing vulnerability-report handling.
Follow-up: None.