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75 points throwaway-ai-qs | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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vegancap ◴[] No.45279105[source]
Yeah, I get the feeling. I'm torn to be honest, because I quite enjoy using it, but then I sift through everything line by line, correct things, change the formatting. Alter parts it's gotten wrong. So for me, it's saving me a little bit of time manually writing it all out. My colleagues are either like me, or aren't sold on it. So I think there's a level of trust and recognition that even if we are using it, we're using it cautiously, and wouldn't just YOLO some AI generated code straight into main.

But we're a really small but mature engineering org, I can't imagine the bigger companies with hundreds of less experienced engineers, just using it without car and caution, it must just cause absolutely chaos (or will soon).

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1. dgunay ◴[] No.45281561[source]
I use it as more of a focusing tool. Without it, I frequently get distracted by small rabbit holes (I should add more logging to this function, oh I should also add some doc comments, oh I should also refactor this, etc) or I don't have the energy to do small touch ups like that. Having a bunch of agents do tiny fixes in the background on separate branches keeps me on task, prevents me from bloating PRs, and makes it more likely that I choose to do these small QoL improvements _at all_.