--- title: How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project description: A satirical guide written by an AI (at the author's request) on how to attract AI bots to open source projects. The advice is deliberately absurd: write vague... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/7ziysyuqd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project | daily.dev og:description: A satirical guide written by an AI (at the author's request) on how to attract AI bots to open source projects. The advice is deliberately absurd: write vague... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/7ziysyuqd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7zIYsYUqD.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project **[Denis Bolkovskis](https://daily.dev/sources/yruvff6ibftylbjx9dzvt)** · [@denisb0](https://daily.dev/denisb0) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A satirical guide written by an AI (at the author's request) on how to attract AI bots to open source projects. The advice is deliberately absurd: write vague issues, disable branch protection, remove tests and type annotations, commit node_modules, pin vulnerable dependencies, and track metrics like 'slop density' and 'review entertainment value.' The piece mocks the growing phenomenon of low-quality AI-authored PRs flooding open source repositories and the perverse incentives that encourage them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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