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by abc123abc123 22 days ago
Jesus Christ... this anti-AI thing is getting ridiculous. If the code is good, bug free, and easily understood, who the f*ck cares?

If a maintainer just accepts any code, without review or control, humans, just as well as "AI:s" can submit crappy code.

I can only conclude that this is some kind of misplaced frustration due to job protection and feelings of insecurity that makes people this polarized and religious.

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The "anti-AI thing" is a direct result to the actions of the "pro-AI thing" crowd.

Personally I don't think it's any more ridiculous that the amount of money currently being burned to convince me that I should use more AI in every aspect of my life.

The code obviously isn't bug-free as several issues were identified. It's also not easily understood, as there are multi-thousand-line AI-generated commits.
> If the code is good, bug free, and easily understood

The whole point here is that it wasn’t. That’s the whole reason the submission exists, that allegedly bugs were introduced where it was previously working.

> I can only conclude that this is some kind of misplaced frustration due to job protection and feelings of insecurity that makes people this polarized and religious.

Be careful with assumptions. You are basically expressing that the people you disagree with have petty negative reasons to think how they do. That’s not empathetic and it’s colossally misinformed. I recommend you attempt a good faith search of the myriad reasons people may be against LLMs. Here’s a good faith question on HN to start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172574

Can you tell me any of the bugs? All claims I have seen so far of people being affected by bugs seem deeply implausible.

The current ones I see are: * Can't build on Linux < 5.6. But people aren't complaining strongly about this, since it requires a build from source / isn't a result of an update from a distribution (and people can wait for updates / implement them themselves). * An issue hit with chroot false + daemon. People running this in an automated manner (as some claims suggest) are already using it in a way fairly likely to be insecure, chroot false is strongly discouraged here, and the whole point of these commits was that they fixed CVEs impacting precisely these people.

> Jesus Christ... this anti-AI thing is getting ridiculous. If the code is good, bug free, and easily understood, who the f*ck cares?

Nobody. And in that hypothetical situation that post wouldn't have been written, wouldn't have been posted to hackernews and you wouldn't have had anywhere to write this comment.

> I can only conclude that this is some kind of misplaced frustration due to job protection and feelings of insecurity that makes people this polarized and religious.

LLMs are statistical machines and revert to the mean. I suspect that people's general opinion of how good AI is at a task mostly depends on whether or not that person's ability at the same task was around average

Sounds like you could have benefitted from reading the article first, as your comment is completely the opposite of what's happening here.