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by ChrisRackauckas 294 days ago
I'm sure there's lots of slop being generated by this stuff, but at least for my work it's mostly solving the simple issues. Maybe it's the slop of "hey can you find out why my code isn't working?" and "closed issue 268 because it works on the latest versions, and we made your code into an MWE for the future". If you check any open source project that gets traction, there's tens of thousands of issues to handle. A good thousand of them are just "unit conversion would be good here", "this docstring is missing this option", etc. Those little PRs are the slop of Github that someone has to do, and I'd prefer not telling my interns to do that because otherwise they'd just quit. Good thing Claude doesn't quit, he's a good boy.