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MTAR 60: Why AI Is Overwhelming Open Source Maintainers
What happens when an open source project receives more AI-generated submissions than its maintainers can reasonably review? At Turso, it meant shutting down a bug bounty program that had uncovered real bugs and led to two hires.
Glauber Costa, CEO of Turso, explains how the program became overwhelmed while his team was building a new implementation of SQLite in Rust. Plausible but invalid bug reports took time to investigate, and automated appeals kept arriving after submissions were rejected. Attempts to filter them through a reputation system weren't enough to keep the program running…
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