[gspr]

If you can't fix them without LLMs, then you can't fix them. You probably shouldn't be trusted with maintaining the codebase in the first place.

[simonw]

How about if you don't have time to fix them without LLMs?

[gspr]

Then you don't have time to maintain the codebase. Sad, but sometimes true.

[sscaryterry]

When given the choice between putting food on the table, and being a purist, I'd take some bread. It is hard out there.

[gspr]

Sure. I did not mean to throw shade at people whose professional survival depends on doing this.

I'm merely trying to establish that it's bad. A lot of HN seems to be cheering for the badness. That is, to me, unfathomable.

[sscaryterry]

You are trying to establish that it is bad based on your beliefs.

I've pointed out to you that LLMs are forced onto people. I fear you are out of touch with the job market requirements of 2026.

[gspr]

Huh? You can accept things that are forced onto you, due to needing to earn a living, while still acknowledging that the things that are forced onto you are bad.

All I'm trying to say here is that slopcode is generally a bad idea. If you are forced to slopcode to earn a living, I am not saying you shouldn't do that ("be a purist", as you'd put it). I'm just trying to point out that HN doesn't seem to generally acknowledge that concept as being bad.

[simonw]

Welcome to volunteer-driven open source.

(Update: you're a Debian developer so you're even more familiar with how that world works than I am.)