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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: 0.202s | 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.

1. codingdave ◴[17 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45279221[source]▶
I think we're going to look back on this time as "Remember when basically all new software dev spun its wheels for years while everyone tried to figure out where AI fit in?"

I'm not sick of AI. I'm just sick of people thinking that AI should be everything in our industry. I don't know how many times I can say "It is just a tool." Because it is. We're 3 years deep into LLM-based products, and people are just now starting to even ask... "Hey, where are the strengths and weaknesses of this tool, and best practices for when to use it or not?"