If you do this on your personal stuff, eh, I wouldn't do it, but you do you.

But we're seeing that this becomes OK in the workplace, and I don't believe it is.

If you propose these changes that would've normally taken you 2 weeks as your own in a PR, then I, as the reviewer, don't know where your knowledge ends and the AI's hallucinations begin.

Do you need to do all of these things? Or is it because the most commonly forked template of this piece of code has this in its boilerplate? I don't know. Do you?

How can you make sure the code works in all situations if you aren't even familiar with the language, let alone the framework / API and protocol?

    * Do you know that in Java you have to do string.Equals instead of == for equality? 
    * Do you know in Python that you assigning a new value to a function default persists beyond the function? 
        * And in JavaScript it does not? 
    * Do you know that the C# && does not translate to VB.NET's And?