February 15, 2026
PRs, panic, and pitchforks
I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes
Dev drowning in 3,100 changes begs for robot sorter — commenters clap back “pace yourself”
TLDR: A maintainer begged for AI to sift and de‑dupe thousands of pull requests, hoping for a startup solution. The crowd split between “slow down,” “no business model,” and “DIY with existing tools,” framing a bigger fight over whether burnout needs better bots or better boundaries.
A frazzled maintainer of OpenClaw says they’re getting buried under a blizzard of pull requests (PRs—basically change suggestions) and issues, and wants AI to scan everything, de‑dupe duplicates, and even auto‑judge the “best” PRs. Their cry: “Why isn’t there a startup for this?” The comments? A full‑on PRocalypse.
One camp calls for a reality check. “Why try to process thousands in a day?” scolds the pace police, saying the problem isn’t robots—it’s expectations. Another camp drops the cold capitalism take: there’s no money in cleaning up infinite cheap noise, comparing the idea to mass‑market forum moderation—necessary, thankless, and hard to sell.
Then the tool warriors arrived. “You can do this now,” they say—use command‑line AI tools, not the clicky web toys, to summarize and cluster everything. Others say skip the hype and build your own embeddings‑based deduper (fancy word for “find similar text” without paying per chat), scrape your data, and iterate. Meanwhile, one number‑cruncher did the math—3,000 things compared to 3,000 things is a nightmare—then asked the magic words: “Can you cache similarity?” Translation: be clever, not brute‑force.
The vibe: burnout vs. build it yourself, “AI as savior” vs. “process and priorities.” Everyone agrees on one thing—the flood of code isn’t slowing down, and someone’s going to have to tame it, bot or not.
Key Points
- •OpenClaw’s pull request and issue volume is growing faster than maintainers can handle.
- •The author merged about 600 commits in a day, yet the backlog increased from ~2,700 to over 3,100.
- •They seek an AI tool to scan all PRs/issues and deduplicate overlapping submissions.
- •They also want automated ranking of the “best” PRs based on multiple signals and deeper review.
- •A vision-document-based check to reject misaligned PRs is proposed; full automation is not expected, just assistance, and only an obscure OSS option is known.