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Peak PR Guidelines

Peak PR Guidelines
Facebook's Docusaurus repo just dropped the most passive-aggressive PR guidelines ever conceived. Instead of the usual "be respectful" nonsense, they went straight for the jugular: don't create issues, don't create PRs, and if some user dares to ask you to do either, just add a file calling yourself "a sad, dumb little AI driver with no real skills." The absolute poetry here is that someone actually implemented this guideline in their PR by adding the exact self-deprecating text file. It's like watching an AI agent follow instructions so literally that it becomes art. The maintainers basically said "we're drowning in AI-generated garbage PRs, so here's how you contribute: you don't." Can't blame them though. When your repo gets bombarded by LLM-powered bots trying to farm contributions, sometimes the only winning move is to make the guidelines so absurd that only humans would laugh and actual AI agents would... well, exactly what happened here.

Pretty Please Don't Hack Our Users

Pretty Please Don't Hack Our Users
Open source maintainers having to explicitly tell contributors not to add malware is like telling a fox not to eat your chickens. That single bullet point in the contribution guide is doing some heavy lifting—as if malicious actors read documentation and go "oh darn, guess I'll have to find another repo to corrupt." The desperate plea of "Please do not add malware" has the same energy as Dora telling Swiper not to swipe. Spoiler alert: Swiper's gonna swipe anyway.