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by whateverboat 27 days ago
But now with AI, this should be "easier" for some definition of easy. In the sense that in the past, this might have taken 15 minutes to write, now with AI, this can take 5 minutes to write by first getting AI to produce a summary and then using human judgement to make it better. So, it's a good idea now to actually demand the dream.
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ivorius 27 days ago
If people knew how to get AI to write terse, focused summaries, sure, that might help. I haven't seen many that do (well, ignoring the toupee fallacy).

Though the most important aspect is that we need to know the motivation and thought process, and all AI can do is fabricate a 'plausible' one.

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adalacelove 27 days ago
Reading AI PRs reminds me of Monty Python's holy grenade:

"And the Lord spake, saying, ''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'

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dsign 27 days ago
I wouldn't mind reading that and having a good chuckle while processing an MR, as long as the comment had been crafted by a person. But now I think writing in grunts is gonna become the thing. "pete? you good boy? we won't hire you/ paper you gave HR girl with older gigs? remember it pete my boy? too many words/ words were too long/ dots you used dots/ you scratched long dash with knife, but baby saw scratch/we don't ai pete/ask if they have job in next cave/good luck."
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lokar 27 days ago
I have spent many years reviewing and editing design and product documentation from more Jr engineers and product managers.

It was a constant struggle to get them to be concise, one I mostly lost.

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chrisjj 27 days ago
> If people knew how to get AI to write terse, focused summaries...

... then flooded maintainers would be doing it.

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ray_kay777 27 days ago
I've found that the instructions "be extremely concise" gets me much closer to output that's actually sensible/helpful rather than another wall of text.
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