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I had $1000 in Claude credits and went to town.

Yes, I made mistakes along the way.

The biggest mistake, AI or not, is dropping a 10K+ PR. 300~500 LOC is how far one should be going, unless they're doing some automated refactoring. E.g. formatting the entire StaticCompiler.jl source. This should've been a distinct PR, preferably by a maintainer.

I agree with you.

I've seen this in other places as well.

The bottleneck is not coding or creating a PR, the bottleneck is the review.

This ought to be automated using AI.

It could first judge whether the PR is frivolous, then try to review it, then flag a human if necessary.

The problem is that Github, or whatever system hosts the process, should actively prevent projects from being DDOS-ed with PR reviews since using AI costs real money.

I mean this with all sincerity, try doing this yourself.

The established projects are resistant to YOLOing their projects and running them on complete LLM autopilot.

You are proposing a completely different development style.

Fork Ocaml to Oca-LLM and Julia to Jul-AI and see how it goes.

I'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now.

I do think this is where we are heading, though.

No, existing open source projects are not ready for this and likely won't ever be.

It will start in the corporate world and maybe already has.

> This ought to be automated using AI.

...

> I'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now.

which is it?

It's both but the focus is on the future.

> This ought to be automated using AI.

When the world is telling you to fucking stop, maybe take a moment and listen.

It's been stated like a consultant giving architectural advice. The problem is that it is socially acceptable to use llms for absolutely anything and also in bulk. Before, you strove to live up to your own standards and people valued authenticity. Now it seems like we are all striving for the holy grail of conventional software engineering: The Average.

It is absolutely not socially acceptable, and people like yourself blithely declaring that it is is getting tiring. Maybe it’s socially acceptable in your particular circles to not give a single shit, take no pride in the slop you throw at people, and expect them to wade through it no questions asked? But not for the rest of us.

Maybe I didn't clearly state my point. That was a comment about my experience earlier here on HN, someone was asked whether or not they've used AI to write and their response was "why not use it if it's better than my own", if that is the reasoning that people give and they are not self-aware enough to be embarrassed about it, I think it must mean that there's a lot of people who think like that.

Please don't tell me you actually spent $1000 on generating fake tests....

It's truly astonishing to me that your account has existed since 2008 and you decided to pull this.

As a troll job for the lulz it is some amazing work. Hats off

This isn't just "making mistakes." It's so profoundly obnoxious that I can't imagine what you've actually been doing during your apparently 30 years of experience as a software developer, such that you somehow didn't understand, or don't, why submitting these PRs is completely unacceptable.

The breezy "challenge me on this" and "it's just a proof of concept" remarks are infuriating. Pull requests are not conversation starters. They aren't for promoting something you think people should think about. The self-absorption and self-indulgence beggar belief.

Your homepage repeatedly says you're open to work and want someone to hire you. I can't imagine anybody looking at those PRs or your behavior in the discussions and concluding that you'd be a good addition to a team.

The cluelessness is mind-boggling.

It's so bad that I'm inclined to wonder whether you really are human -- or whether you're someone's stealthy, dishonest LLM experiment.

You've wasted other peoples time and mental energy with utter bullshit that you weren't even bothered to read yourself. Be more considerate in future.

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