Hanging out in programming language IRC channels (quakenet shoutout) makes you realize pretty quickly why experts in said channels and newsgroups are such irritable grumps whenever someone asks a question that smells like homework assignment.

I also grew to understand the value of people digging deeper into the underlying issue, instead of just answering "how do you do X in Y". The usual reaction was "I don't want to explain to you why I want to do it like this. Just tell me how to do this!"

> Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.

I toyed with the idea of (on open source projects) having the human assign any PR-bot submissions to their own bot (cheapest one available will do) with the explicit instructions to cause as much rework as possible.

Sorta like a tarpit. Could be cheaper if the rejection is generated from a markov chain as that's going to be cheaper than even a cheap LLM.