Open-source AI's bot problem surfaces in the repos themselves
A maintainer's trap — a poisoned CONTRIBUTING.md designed to catch AI bots — revealed that half of incoming pull requests to awesome-mcp-servers were bot-generated within a single day, and the story is now driving a measurable share of a conversation that's running more than twice its normal volume on Bluesky. The irony is hard to miss: open-source communities built on human collaboration are now quietly auditing whether their contributors are human at all.