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GitHub's New Issue Automation: Don't Mistake Confidence for Authorization
GitHub's July 23 changelog introduced issue automations with confidence levels and rationale. The feature can label, assign, or close issues based on confidence thresholds. However, treating confidence as permission risks unsafe actions; a safer policy requires considering impact, evidence, reversibility, and authority.
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The article rightly warns that GitHub's convenience feature could lead to governance gaps if teams conflate model confidence with actual authorization.
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