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Similarly, a few years ago, I would've never expected "my magic code generation machine is doing all my work for me now, I don't even bother looking at what it does anymore!" to reach the Hacker News home page on a regular basis, either, yet here we are.

Irrational actions lead to irrational reactions.

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That’s not how LLMs are used by experienced engineers.

And yet this is exactly how it was used for rsync which caused the outrage you're all complaining about.

You're being dishonest with what you wrote when the proof is literally in this article.

its not an article, its a github issue. There is no proof, someone posted a screenshot of another person on twitter complaining about a vague bug they experienced. It's certainly not clear the maintainer used an llm in the way described (how would you know unless they told you?). Its not even clear what issues there are specifically, or whether they were caused by ai usage.

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