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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away." (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

This is one scenario where the GenAI has been pretty useful, to a point.

It can help someone review code. It has a lot of false positives, but it does occasionally catch something, and I can forgive the false positives, even if they are super annoying and time consuming, so long as it is catching something on occasion.

In open source, a problem is so many people in your community now want to 'help' by using their AI subscriptions to review the existing code and then spam the project with their 'findings' because they don't understand well enough to double check the AI. This greatly amplifies the false positive problem with mind numbing volume of dupes.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    My employer rolled out an AI-based bot which commented on code reviews. It was absolute garbage, and every single comment I ever saw it make was a false positive. Disproving the false positives was a huge waste of time. I hated it with a passion.

    Recently it was upgraded with a modern model. Now I've only ever seen it give legitimate feedback. It's like night and day. Sometimes the feedback is overly pedantic, and more often than not suggesting an improvement slated for later, but still legitimate feedback with an appropriate tone for the severity.

    I believe recent sentiment from the curl project (who previously complained about drowning in slop PRs), is that their AI-based pull requests have also improved significantly.

    I'm still not a fan of AI-generated code, since I mostly think in terms of code and AI fucks up the process for me, but I have to acknowledge that quality of output has improved greatly the past year or so.

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