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Comment by nickjj | Hacker News Reader

They should also remove Copilot code reviews from being counted as metrics in a PR.

I've seen some projects that use it and you open the PR page to be greeted by every PR having 3-20 comments but when you goto the actual PR, there's no one except the contributor with a bunch of Copilot feedback.

It gives a false message that the PR is resonating with folks and has real activity. I wonder if GitHub did this on purpose to make engagement seem higher than it really is.

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If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots.

I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc.

Clankers can keep their own counts.

Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast.

It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged.

Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

Reddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale.

Where I work that many comments could be taken as a bad thing: "i've seen too many comments finding issues or nitpicks with your PR, why aren't you doing a better job before submitting it for review??"

Where I work, the latest trend is to open the PR with the pure vibe code, then the developer who opened the PR will review it as if its someone else's PR, so before anyone else even looks at the PR it can have upwards of 50 comments on it.

Makes sense but it's a sad issue considering at least in my org we're being told to cut jira tickets such that they can be implemented purely by AI.

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