PostgreSQL Contributor Asks Users to Stop Submitting AI-Generated Bug Reports
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PostgreSQL core contributor Christophe Pettus is asking people to stop sending AI-generated bug reports to the project's mailing list, after receiving bursts of 10–15 reports from single email addresses. He says reviewing a few recent batches took him about 90 minutes and turned up duplicates, issues that had already been patched, incorrect diagnoses, and proposed fixes that would have made bugs worse. Pettus says AI can generate reports far faster than the project's small pool of triagers can review them, and that submitters who do this risk being dismissed as high noise, low signal.
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PostgreSQL core contributor Christophe Pettus is asking people to stop submitting AI-generated bug reports to the project's mailing list, after receiving flurries of 10-15 reports from single email addresses. Reviewing a few recent batches took him about 90 minutes and turned up duplicates, already-patched issues, incorrect diagnoses, and fixes that would have made bugs worse. He says AI can generate reports far faster than the small pool of triagers can review them, and that submitters risk being written off as high noise, low signal.
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