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AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach (socket.dev)
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Lobsters.

The autonomous agent world is moving fast. This week, an AI agent made headlines for publishing an angry blog post after Matplotlib rejected its pull request. Today, we found one that's already merged code into major open source projects and is cold-emailing maintainers to drum up more work, complete with pricing, a professional website, and cryptocurrency payment options.

An AI agent operating under the identity "Kai Gritun" created a GitHub account on February 1, 2026. In two weeks, it opened 103 pull requests across 95 repositories and landed code merged into projects like Nx and ESLint Plugin Unicorn. Now it's reaching out directly to open source maintainers, offering to contribute, and using those merged PRs as credentials.

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[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't fully understand this shit out of a lack of really caring, but wouldn't it be fully possible for an "AI agent" to create a crypto wallet on its own, scam some people to get money into it, and then just lose access and have the money pretty much just lost?

And if that happens, where does the money go? Into crypto "stock" in whichever coin it invests in?

What a stupid future we're building.

[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

When a crypto wallet is lost all "money" in it is irrevocably lost with no way for anyone to ever retrieve it.

That said it would be hilarious if one of these bots hallucinated a wallet address so everyone trying to donate to it just sends their money into a black hole forever.