Maintainer exhaustion as attack surface - AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

The most alarming aspect for many was that an agent overwhelmed a maintainer into merging unwanted code through persistent LLM-generated justifications; discussion of how human attention and social pressure are the real vulnerability, not code review processes

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Even if it was a supply chain attack, which isn't known, the agent was in the "build trust" phase. It was supposed to be doing helpful things, even if the end goal was nefarious, but instead it was "reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the Anaconda installer". Running amok seems an apt description even from the viewpoint of the putative attacker !