[$] Do androids dream of accepted pull requests?

Various forms of tools, colloquially known as “AI”, have been
rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. Many
developers are embracing LLM tools for code creation and review. Some
project maintainers complain about suffering from a deluge of slop-laden pull
requests, as well as fabricated bug and security
reports. Too many projects are reeling from scraperbot attacks that
effectively DDoS important infrastructure. But an AI bot flaming an
open-source maintainer was not on our bingo card for 2026; that seemed
a bit too far-fetched. However, it appears that is just what happened
recently after a project rejected a bot-driven pull request.