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Wait for deluge of these PR generators to increase the commit count on GitHub.

Thats a good point, I really dislike when Sweep fails. That's why we're so focused on PR validation like self-review and GitHub actions, which brings it even closer to a junior dev. We wrote another blog on it here: https://docs.sweep.dev/blogs/giving-dev-tools

There's still a long way to go on automated testing, building, and running code, but I don't see any reason it's not possible!

Another buisness idea is to make repos look more active by giving Sweep different personas.

Good point, we may allow open source repos to do this in order to credit contributors that wrote the original issues (those contributions are really valuable).

What you just said would be a good thing(1). That would mean that more bugs are getting fixed.

(1) unless the PRs that they generate are garbage.

+1, The PRs we made 2 months ago were really bad. That's also been the biggest barrier to getting them merged.

Definitely check out what we've been able to merge now though. The ceiling for tools like Sweep is incredibly high.

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