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Greptile pulled the numbers off the fastest-growing repo in GitHub history: contributions that demand deep codebase knowledge get merged nearly 4x more than novel features. Speed predicts nothing.
The thread split on the fix. Some want reputation scoring borrowed from anti-spam history; others want AI contributions banned outright, and one engineer noted the email analogy quietly breaks.
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Nous Research's Hermes Agent shipped a guide and a 'hermes claw migrate' command to absorb OpenClaw configs, MEMORY.md, skills and messaging tokens in one shot. The first reply instead pointed at a similarity analysis accusing Hermes of copying a rival's memory/skill/evolution design.
Then dozens of users who actually ran these self-hosted agents asked the same thing: what is any of this for? One had built his own clone in a few hours; another said his version calls his wife if he ignores a pull request.
