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by osmsucks 84 days ago
This article has a weird tone. It directly criticizes the results of this AI-driven coding effort (which the author admits is of bad quality), while at the same time it tries to reassure the reader that they're not here to criticize the author of the PR.

Only of these can be true at the same time.
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skeeter2020 84 days ago
not if they are different authors; AI wrote the code and the human the PR. These used to implicitly be the same person but this is something important we have lost. You've now got a smart, former developer in a position of power vouching for code they essentially didn't write.
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osmsucks 84 days ago
So you're saying that the slop thus produced is not the responsibility of the human authoring the PR? I would assume it is, regardless of how it was produced.
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joshmoody24 82 days ago
It's not like the Shopify CEO intentionally tried to make something low quality. Was he out of his depth? Sure, but I don't fault him for trying. I think the people hyping up this event have caused more harm than the event itself.
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