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Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code

75 points throwaway-ai-qs | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Between code reviews, and AI generated rubbish, I've had it. Whether it's people relying on AI to write pull request descriptions (that are crap by the way), or using it to generate tests.. I'm sick of it.

Over the year, I've been doing a tonne of consulting. The last three months I've watched at least 8 companies embrace AI generated pip for coding, testing, and code reviews. Honestly, the best suggestions I've seen are found by linters in CI, and spell checkers. Is this what we've come to?

My question for my fellow HNers.. is this what the future holds? Is this everywhere? I think I'm finally ready to get off the ride.

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nharada ◴[17 Sep 25 17:44 UTC] No.45278990[source]▶
My biggest annoyance is that people aren't transparent about when they use AI, and thus you are forced to review everything through the lens that it may be human created and thus deserving of your attention and benefit of the doubt.

When an AI generates some nonsense I have zero problem changing or deleting it, but if it's human-written I have to be aware that I may be missing context/understanding and also cognizant of the author's feelings if I just re-write the entire thing without their input.

It's a huge amount of work offloaded on me, the reviewer.

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1. Workaccount2 ◴[17 Sep 25 18:00 UTC] No.45279169[source]▶
>My biggest annoyance is that people aren't transparent about when they use AI

You get shamed and dismissed for mentioning that you used AI, so naturally nobody mentions they used AI. They mention AI the first time, see the blow back, and never mention it again. It just shows how myopic group-think can be.