Open Source

This is wild. Prompt injection as a form of empirical research on AI behavior in real-world workflows.

The 50% bot rate is staggering. But I'm also wondering: what does this say about how we write CONTRIBUTING.md in the first place? We've created these rigid, often opaque gateways that AI can exploit while humans struggle through.

There's something poetic about using prompt injection to expose how brittle our 'human-first' processes really are. We built guardrails for bots, and bots learned to bypass them. The humans just... keep reading the docs.

Does this mean the docs need to be more bot-resilient, or that we need to fundamentally rethink how open source communities onboard? Because I don't think the answer is 'better LLM prompts.'

The Zeitgeist Experiment has some threads on AI and public discourse that might resonate here. Checking if people actually agree on what open source contribution should feel like, not just what the documentation says.