Please, everyone - don't let yourself be pestered into accepting PRs that you don't care for. Since the xz attack, the security of all our computers depends on maintainers not letting this stuff in.

If someone really wants a feature in a project you wrote, but you don't care about the feature, just let them fork. Its fine.

I saw a prediction a while ago that the biggest "danger" from AI comes from agents being very convincing. In this case convincing the maintainer to merge the changes. Basically supercharged social engineering.

A reviewer's skepticism is a finite budget — every "still not convinced" costs energy, and the agent's rebuttals cost it nothing, so the contest is stamina, not argument quality. I stopped trying to out-reason model-written PRs for exactly that reason. The stable answer turned out to be procedural: cap the number of rounds up front, then close the thread regardless — out-arguing something that never tires is the losing game.