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by apwell23 387 days ago
> So please:

> 1. Check if there exists a release PR already. When you check, do not grep, just list ALL PRs.

Why would you make AI do this when you can just do it with an api call or git.

Does the author not know that there is a chance that it won't actuall list ALL PRs just because he put that in all caps?

we have lost our collective minds that this person is proudly publishing this stupidity to the world. i hate this so much.

can we pls ban these coders from the industry :(
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miyuru 387 days ago
>can we pls ban these coders from the industry

This is the main problem with AI, we can no longer distinguish bad coders/managers because they use AI heavily and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing.

I now say things that will not make sense to a good coders (like saying the steps out of order), to find out such people.

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johnisgood 387 days ago
Eventually you will find the imposters (I have impostor syndrome, gives it a whole new spin), because AI does not replace your knowledge of the underlying concepts.

It just takes time at times.

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otabdeveloper4 387 days ago
> ...and which can say knowledgeable things at times while having no idea on what they are doing

This has been a thing forever, before AI. Lots of "programmers" at BigCorp have hacked the system and they know how to say the right words relevant to BigCorp's tech stack. Knowing how to actually program is entirely optional. (You can just copy-paste boilerplate from BigCorp's monorepo, writing boilerplate will be your day job anyways.)

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apwell23 387 days ago
yea for sure they hacked the system for promotions but they weren't checking in AI slop for rest of us to deal with.
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seunosewa 386 days ago
They were checking in buggy spaghetti code though.
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Maxion 387 days ago
> can we pls ban these coders from the industry :(

No, as these coders are what will ensure the rest of us will have a nice gravy train in 5 years.

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pylotlight 387 days ago
Gotta wait for the crash first, when the buildup of poor code overwhelms the remaining few snr devs and mountain of those that are AI only.
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