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LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM

LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM

Posted Aug 5, 2026 7:29 UTC (Wed) by rrolls (subscriber, #151126)
In reply to: LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM by jpeisach
Parent article: An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub

I find it bizarre that those issues were opened in 2020! We didn't have LLMs back then, did we..?

I suspect probably more likely that the original issues were opened in good faith by someone without native English, who maybe used a machine translator at the time, but perhaps recently handed that account over to an LLM.

That said, on the note of the actual content, #122 is, strictly speaking, a genuine issue, though they've shot themselves in the foot by calling it a "naming convention" issue, since it's worse than that. The first link in their 2026 post (to Stack Overflow) is correct. The C standard actually does prohibit names that begin with an underscore followed by a capital letter, or contain two underscores in a row. Those are supposed to be reserved for things like stdlib implementations. Since compilers don't complain, it's easy to just not know this.

Of course, it's not necessarily a good idea to go renaming all the prohibited identifiers now, since in a large, mature existing project, that's probably risky. "If it ain't broke don't fix it." But the issue isn't just spam.


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