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by kibibu 16 days ago
The irony of somebody dumping pages of Claude output into this particular GitHub issue
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I thought about this. This isn't irony. The dynamic is the entire underlying professional/industry issue, imho.

With advance apologies to 'rbatllet', reading the entire matter and then taking a glance at the repos of public contributions of these two developers -- and I could be wrong -- but the social/professional friction point here is someone like jlink (who clearly can code his heart out without an LLM) is getting LLM lectured by someone who gives impression of being a (relatively) junior s/w developer.

I am certain this thought is at some subconscious level affecting many high performing developers.

It's really ironic how the maintainer didn't catch that and actually trusted the user that reported the issue (and clearly used a verbose agent to write all the comments)
> the maintainer didn't catch that

They actually did notice something in <https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708#issuecomment-...>:

> One short request before I go into details. Could you disclose on whose behalf you're discussing this? Just personal interest is fine, I just want to make sure that I'm not spending my time with some AI-driven company, let alone an LLM-controlled agent.

Yeah I read it. To which the other side moved from "we" to first person and said they are a solo developer, in a very long reply.
I'd say sad more than ironic. It's a person accepting to engage in discussion about a technical matter and unknowingly speaking with the machine, literally.
I'd have felt a little bad if the person complaining was a human. Hard to feel sorry for a machine, or a person that has delegated thinking to one.
Personally I would have immediately closed it. If you can’t write it, I can’t read it.