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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: 0.201s | 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. throwacct ◴[17 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45280089[source]▶
I'm using "AI" almost exclusively to scaffold projects. I spent 2 days trying to find the reason the code wasn't working the way it supposed to work. Where I work we're using it with moderation, knowing that if you generate code, you must double check everything and confirm that what you generated doesn't smell. You'll be held accountable if something brakes because you were eager to push unreviewed code.