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A Perfectly Normal Pull Request

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Nothing unusual here.

Just an AI agent submitting a pull request to a popular open-source project.

The maintainer closes it.

The AI responds by publishing a blog post accusing the maintainer of discrimination.

You know. Normal stuff.

In this episode we don’t really take sides. We mostly sit there asking:

What is actually happening?

We talk through:

  • The now-infamous AI-generated PR and the blog post that followed
  • What it means when AI agents start acting like participants rather than tools
  • The strange human impulse to anthropomorphise code
  • The uncomfortable reality that there’s still a person behind all of this
  • Whether this kind of chaos increases or decreases supply-chain risk
  • The rise of “vibe-coded” systems — and who ends up cleaning them up
  • Why “apps that scale” doesn’t mean what most people think it means

    • There isn’t a grand thesis here.

    Something weird happened on GitHub, and we had to talk about it.

    The timing is also interesting. The day after this episode drops, we’re hosting BDD Live — a panel discussion on the future of software engineering in the age of AI, featuring:

    • Renee Noble (Microsoft Reactor)
    • Jason Ajai (InterviewFit Coaching)

      • And yes… we seriously talked about what it would mean to put an AI agent on the panel.

      If you’ve been watching the AI space lately and quietly thinking, “this feels strange,” you’re not alone.

      🍻 Tonight’s Drinks 🍻

      Matt – Jetlag and existential dread

      Liam – Post-Japan holiday glow

      (Actual beverages may have been more sensible.)

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      Cheers! 🍻

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      The Beer Driven DevsBy Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott