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xenodesire

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xenodesire··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
At this point, I no longer consider those who spam PRs to be users; I liken them to a type of vandals. They simply slow down genuine contributors who could be working on more productive tasks but are forced to review all that sloppy code instead.
xenodesire··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
The technical debt in these projects that are widely accepting this type of AI contribution scares me a lot.

In a few years, we’re going to suffer the consequences of this.

xenodesire··on GCC steering committee announces AI policy
> I know well objects to AI auto-completion in your editor, but neither does anybody want to let AI open pull requests autonomously.

I think it’s more about turning language models into your smart intern, rather than letting them do all your work or become your moronic boss.

In any case, I do think there could be room for AI in the future—for instance, in academic research. I recently saw a news story about an AI that managed to detect certain types of cancer based on a specific blood test; I consider that a justifiable use of AI. However, using it to autonomously send PRs? That strikes me as going too far.

xenodesire··on Hacker News, GitHub and AI
I believe we’ll only find out when the bubble bursts; until then, technical debt will keep mounting, and we’ll see a significant number of "vibe-coded" repositories gaining traction.
xenodesire··on UK police to arrest people for showing support for Palestine Action
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