Ooo, this unironically lmao

This is just so fitting.

I keep getting merge requests now from people that their whole job to date had been too scared by the syntax to try coding.

It’s almost always a shotgun of way too many lines of code changed for a small thing, often with horrible side effects that would be unacceptable.

Someone wanted to tweak the CSS layout of one element, what should have been a one line change. The pull request had hundreds of css changes, basically touching everything. Clearly the model had started changing things and he kept saying it didn’t do it yet until finally it did and it never rolled back anything it did, including many of the rules being repeated 5 times in a row in the same place…

They felt like AI was making them so helpful because they could submit a code change directly instead of just asking for what they want. They proudly said “AI told me:” and then explain the brilliance of the AI finding. One time the AI finding was addressed over 6 months prior, the AI never thought to update the software, but instead proposed a really crap workaround that would have failed to cover a whole class of similar scenarios while simultaneously imposing crazy side effects on scenarios that weren’t tested.

I can use AI too, please just send me what you would have sent to the AI, and if AI can do it, I could use the AI. If you think the AI will figure out how you are using something wrong and don’t want to bother/wait for a human to help, fine, but if it gets to what it thinks is a software bug, just rewind and start from your problem statement when you come to me…