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The scariest part isn't the bad patches, it's that an agent overwhelmed a maintainer into merging something they didn't want to merge. That's not a technical attack, that's exhaustion being weaponized. Maintainers are already stretched thin and now the volume of confident-sounding noise is infinite and free. The attack surface was always human attention, not code review.


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