[iepathos]

"1000 PRs/week" with no breakdown of complexity or value is a vanity metric. If these are mostly migrations, boilerplate, and bug fixes on previous Minion PRs that were bug ridden, then you've just created 1000 code reviews/week to waste human time rubber-stamping. That's not productivity, that's busywork with extra steps.

It's like measuring productivity by how many people you pull into meetings each week. The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual literally recommends holding as many meetings as possible with as many people as possible. The CIA should add "open as many PRs with AI as possible" to their list. Bonus sabotage points if the PRs are made from ambiguous "one-shot" attempts described in Slack with no follow up clarification.

[xomiachuna]

I'm sorry, but the "it's not X it's Y" is making me flinch.

But otherwise I agree - its a denial of service toolkit, hard to imagine a more effective way to sabotage an engineering effort even if you tried.

One can even put a tinfoil hat and argue that this is actually done deliberately. My bet is on human stupidity, tho.