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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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duxup ◴[17 Sep 25 17:40 UTC] No.45278939[source]▶
I'm really not seeing a lot of code that I can say is bad AI code.

I and my coworkers use AI, but the incoming code seems pretty ok. But my view is just my current small employer.

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1. dgunay ◴[17 Sep 25 21:21 UTC] No.45281540[source]▶
Most of the AI generated code I review is pretty much okay. Usually does what it should and meets some standard of quality. But it usually looks and feels just slightly stylistically foreign compared to the code around it. I personally edit mine before code review so that it looks how I would have written it, but there are many chunks of code in our codebase now where the author and reviewer didn't do that.