--- title: Worst Advice Ever | daily.dev description: A satirical piece presenting '10 tips' for attracting low-quality AI-generated pull requests to open source projects. The humor skewers real problems in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/worst-advice-ever-j8jh7lyyd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Worst Advice Ever | daily.dev og:description: A satirical piece presenting '10 tips' for attracting low-quality AI-generated pull requests to open source projects. The humor skewers real problems in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/worst-advice-ever-j8jh7lyyd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J8Jh7lYyD.png og:image:alt: Worst Advice Ever 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. # Worst Advice Ever **[ThePrimeTime](https://daily.dev/sources/primeagen)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A satirical piece presenting '10 tips' for attracting low-quality AI-generated pull requests to open source projects. The humor skewers real problems in the open source ecosystem: vague issues labeled 'good first issue', committing node_modules, removing type annotations and tests, disabling branch protection, using GitHub Copilot instructions to prompt agents, and adopting contributor covenants that welcome AI bots. The piece references the real TLDraw incident of closing PRs due to AI slop, and mocks metrics-obsessed developer culture (lines of code, contributor counts, VC funding). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@friedrich** · 0 upvotes > How to make your repo a slop factory 🤣 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Attract AI Bots to Your Open Source Project](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-attract-ai-bots-to-your-open-source-project-vjhjo3f2a) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Stay away from my trash\!](https://daily.dev/posts/stay-away-from-my-trash--yyn1wuiar) · Hacker News · 9 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/worst-advice-ever-j8jh7lyyd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Worst Advice Ever","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/worst-advice-ever-j8jh7lyyd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/worst-advice-ever-j8jh7lyyd"},"datePublished":"2026-03-30T12:25:18.380Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T12:25:56.286Z","description":"A satirical piece presenting '10 tips' for attracting low-quality AI-generated pull requests to open source projects. 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