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yarn_··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
I don't quite see the benefit of this, personally.

Whoever is submitting the code is still responsible for it, why would the reviewer care if you wrote it with your fingers or if an LLM wrote (parts of) it? The quality+understanding bar shouldn't change just because "oh idk claude wrote this part". You don't get extra leeway just because you saved your own time writing the code - that fact doesn't benefit me/the project in any way.

Likewise, leaving AI attribution in will probably have the opposite effect as well, where a perfectly good few lines of code gets rejected because some reviewer saw it was claude and assumed it was slop. Neither of these cases seems helpful to anyone (obviously its not like AI can't write a single useable line of code).

The code is either good or it isn't, and you either understand it or you don't. Whether you or claude wrote it is immaterial.

yarn_··on Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
"It would be astonishing if people were able to casually not antropomorphize LLMs"

Precisely. Even for technical people, I doubt its possible to totally disallow your own brain from ever, unconciously, treating the entity you're speaking to like a sentient being. Most technical people still will have some emotion in their prompts, say please or thank you, give qualitative feedback for no reason, express anger towards the model, etc.

Its just impossible to seperate our capacity for conversation from our sense that we're actually talking to "someone" (in the most vague sense).

yarn_··on AI chatbots are "Yes-Men" that reinforce bad relationship decisions, study finds
Come on, I'm sure Dario can find a nice tight bodysuit for claude
yarn_··on Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)
With respect to Carmack I completely agree. There is too much appeal to authority with respect to him solely based on him making an impressive game (with the help of some other genius level programmers eg abrash) nearly 40 years ago.
yarn_··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
All this for what?
yarn_··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
This is the only reasonable argument I've heard, but in reality I don't find uninstallers do their job anyway, i seldom have an uninstaller that doesn't leave empty folders behind, config files, user files...
yarn_··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
it also doesnt simulate the part where the junior actually learns and is less clueless 6 months from now, unfortunately
yarn_··on VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
Nice, this finally solves my "waffling between vscode & neovim" problem
yarn_··on Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that
Its ok but i'd be more convinced if instead of real icons it had hallucinated+bespoke SVGs that made me uncomfortable to look at for reasons I can't discern and don't quite look like anything in particular
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