About ChatGPT submitting a pull request to Rails and whether that is ordinary.
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Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About ChatGPT submitting a pull request to Rails and whether that is ordinary.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I know it sounds funny, but GPT-4 could already probably swallow the whole repo and propose a whole patch and gh-cli command to actually do the thing nearly by itself.
I’m just here waiting for a “Fix issue” button on GitHub tickets, then I’ll be impressed again, for a week.