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by famouswaffles 35 days ago
There's no reason to think there was an 'initial denial'. That's the point. Everyone here is saying there was denial because all of this happened in 9 days, and again, that's a silly assertion to make when humans did not create or review the code. Someone can have a swift turn in opinion when an incredible amount of change happens in a short time. The LoC comment I made was simply to serve as an illustration to how fast things can change with LLM generated code.

I'm being flippant because this should be incredibly easy to understand.
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BoorishBears 35 days ago
Maybe it might be easier to understand if I was a really terrible engineer.

AI gives me 750k LoC PR that's mostly broken and unuseable on Monday.

AI then fixing it by adding another 250k LoC, is not going to convince me, a competent maintainer of a major Js runtime with years of contributions, plenty of downstream dependents, and an understanding of the AI zeitgeist... to merge it all in by the next Wednesday

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famouswaffles 34 days ago
>Maybe it might be easier to understand if I was a really terrible engineer.

Yes yes I'm sure Jarred is a really terrible engineer. Yawn.

>AI then fixing it by adding another 250k LoC, is not going to convince me, a competent maintainer of a major Js runtime with years of contributions, plenty of downstream dependents, and an understanding of the AI zeitgeist... to merge it all in by the next Wednesday

But you're not any of these things, are you? Regardless, of course you're free to not make the same decision. Doesn't really change the point.

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BoorishBears 34 days ago
The fact so many people can tell these actions don't meet the bar of a competent maintainer is... not a flex.

And I didn't realize I was talking to a cheerleader the whole time: I guess I'll defer to you on if Jarred is consistently a terrible engineer, or is just being a terrible engineer this one time.

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