Pull requests with LLM attribution are predatory behavior

If there’s a predator [1] , there must be prey. Here, the prey is time — first, the time of a person who reviews the PR; second, the time of a maintainer who will be maintaining the code after it lands in master. Pull requests are usually asymmetric [1] : it takes significantly less effort to write a PR, than to review it and then maintain it. But LLMs skew the asymmetry to an absurd proportion.…