I'm Rahul, and I work at Greptile, where we build AI agents that review pull requests. Greptile reviews PRs for OpenClaw which became the fastest-growing repo in GitHub history almost overnight. That gave us a front row seat to something strange.

Last December, OpenClaw was getting two pull requests a week. By February, that number jumped to 3,400/week. Before the spike, ~48% of PRs got merged; after, fewer than 9.3% of PRs got merged.

Many of those PRs were low-effort slop which were often generated by people's AI coding agents. For example, one contributor submitted 106 PRs in a single day, with the median time between submissions being three seconds .

In many ways, openclaw/openclaw offers us a preview of what the future of open source contribution may look like. Here are three observations:

PRs will require sender reputation

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s.

When I first looked at the OpenClaw data, the pattern reminded me of email.…