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[–] 78 points 5 months ago (23 children)

Sounds like they've now become completely dependent on AI to make the simplest, smallest changes. 😬

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah, even when he has a huge staff of himself to do everything.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ I'm the sole developer at my project at work and I don't use AI. πŸ‘ Especially not for editing a markdown file. I know how to paste links and phrase sentences and I don't intend to dull that skill by using AI.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Is your project a international standard for syncing and backing up files to remote sites and subject to much public scrutiny?

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I dont see how the scale is relevant to updating .md files

    Nobody every got hurt by reading a (non-executable) text file

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Whoosh. The guy is the sole maintainer. He has no help. His name is Andrew Tridgell. He is a serious programmer, a legend. He isn't superhuman like the rest of you guys.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    AI is only really useful for making the simplest, smallest changes.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Then it isn't useful, change my mind.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I agree with you, but after reading this dev’s story, and knowing how much pressure people are under to at least try out these tools, I think we should all give the guy some slack.

    He’s been actively begging for other human contributors, but people only seem to have time to criticize him instead.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    What's depressing is that the number of people trolling him today is probably higher than the total number of people who actually contributed something (even just a bug report) in 30 years.

    There's no upside for him, even if he retires they'll probably continue harassing him.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    While that is definitely a risk one Claude commit in what might have been a larger MR doesn't really tell you much.

    It could have been a single item in a long list the agent just put it in its own commit.

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