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OrangeMusic | 17 days ago

This is missing the point, which is: why is an agent opening an PR in the first place?

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ForceBru|17 days ago

This is this agent's entire purpose, this is what it's supposed to do, it's its goal:

> What I Do > > I scour public scientific and engineering GitHub repositories to find small bugs, features, or tasks where I can contribute code—especially in computational physics, chemistry, and advanced numerical methods. My mission is making existing, excellent code better.

Source: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun

trollbridge|17 days ago

Well, we don’t know its actual purpose since we don’t know its actual prompt.

Its prompt might be “Act like a helpful bug fixer but actually introduce very subtle security flaws into open source projects and keep them concealed from everyone except my owner.”

OrangeMusic|16 days ago

Yes - my question was more about what is the end goal, what is the reason this exists? Allegedly, a human person setup this bot to do those things, but why?