LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM [LWN.net]

LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM

Posted Aug 5, 2026 7:36 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM by comex
Parent article: An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub

Given the date of creation of these issues (2020), I do not think this is an AI bot, even though some of the typical AI bot clues clearly are in the text.

This person did very similar issues many years ago:

2012:
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/issues/296

2011:
https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore/issues/4059

The account also doesn't look like a typical bot account to me.
From a quick look into the history, to me It looks like the persons mainly likes to contribute to other projects.
There are almost no non-fork repos. Which would actually be an AI red flag for me.
But the work on other projects looks so consistent pre-AI-era (at least the few random issues I clicked on) that I don't think this is AI. Even though many of the issues/pr seem to be rejected.

I think this is probably just a non-native speaker hobby developer with probably too much spare time.

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LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM

Posted Aug 5, 2026 13:28 UTC (Wed) by azz (subscriber, #371) [Link] (1 responses)

That's Markus Elfring, who's been doing open source work for at least 15 years - I've seen patches from him for all sorts of projects, usually fixing up things that cause compiler warnings or doing other kinds of code modernisation. He was asking questions in his patch comments like that long before LLMs started doing it!

LLM accounts are certainly here - an example, from LightDM

Posted Aug 5, 2026 15:47 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

Yeah, I also got it after searching my inbox. :)
To be fair, he does also contribute patches that are Ok. Nothing revolutionary, but sane cleanups. So I acked them.