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ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails

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How? ChatGPT did not send the PR and cannot ingest a whole repo. I assume the author picked and fed it the 4 affected files, making it less “ChatGPT submitted a PR” and more “I used ChatGPT to write this code and text” which is pretty ordinary right now.

Doesn't "ordinary" seem a bit of an exaggeration considering such things weren't even possible up until recently? It might be clickbait, but good grief, how can we already be this disenchanted with what is a miraculous technology.

Just because it wasn't possible recently, it's normal now for everybody.

I prefer Copilot, and wouldn't ever want to go back.

World is changing super fast.

I know it sounds funny, but GPT-4 could already probably swallow the whole repo and propose a whole patch and gh-cli command to actually do the thing nearly by itself.

I’m just here waiting for a “Fix issue” button on GitHub tickets, then I’ll be impressed again, for a week.

> How?

It didn't. This is clickbait.

Yeah, it's pretty clear that the PR was co-authored by ChatGPT.

> These changes improve the overall user experience and maintain compatibility with BCrypt's limitations.

Isn't this fundamentally a vulnerability, if a minor one?

And then someone asks

> awesome demonstration of ChatGPT capabilities! But ChatGPT is a proprietary tool, couldn't there be any legal issues with code ownership after accepting such a patch?

and apparently the submitter used that as a GPT query and posted the response. As the man said, "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

From the diff it looks like they already had a test case for this? Is this actually adding anything new?

My reading of the PR is that previously, anything <=72 unicode characters was accepted, and they've changed it to limit to 72 bytes regardless of the actual number of characters (as some chars are >1 byte)

While I guess this is kind-of interesting, where did the title of the post come from? All I’m seeing here is somebody used ChatGPT to write some code and a pull request. Even the person opening the PR says “Co-authored-by: ChatGPT”.

Maybe the title should be changed?

I do not believe this is the first PR made by a LLM, is it? If not, why is this notable?

I'm waiting for the headline that brings all the HN darlings (past and present) together:

"ChatGPT rewrites Rails in Rust! All the tests are passing and its submissions are at the top of Techempower's benchmarks"

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