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yicmoggIrl

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    Comment #46865210

    > If getting people to review code is that hard that seems like a problem for our new AI age. AI coding appears to rely on getting people to review a lot code and assumes those peo…

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    Comment #46865150

    > the single toggle for all current and future AI. That's a genuine concession to user agency rather than the usual whack-a-mole of about:config flags My thought exactly! I'm grate…

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    Comment #46841581

    > It is impossible to get someone from the project to review my PRs Sorry to say this, but this is natural. Writing patches is easy. Reviewing them is hard. Writing patches (and ge…

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    Comment #46660438

    > one aspect proving the overanalysis is the wild length of the article beyond that point I agree. I found the style tedious and the length exhausting. I'd occasionally read pieces…

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    Comment #46582212

    > the outcome is psychologically intolerable [...] People do not argue with conclusions, they argue with perception [...] accepting it would force a reckoning they are not ready fo…

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    Comment #46582040

    > reviewing is so much harder than writing This is what reams of the AI proponents fail to understand. "Amazing, I don't have to write code, 'only' review AI slop" is sitting backw…

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    Comment #46581960

    This. The only thing AI will do, at the societal level, if it truly succeeds, is insanely amplify the power imbalance we already suffer under. Thinking that the benefits of AI will…

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    Comment #46581655

    Excellent comment (even "mini essay"). I'm unsure if you've written it with AI-assistance, but even if that's the case, I'll tolerate it. I have two things to add. > This is not a …

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    Comment #46545152

    (what a coincidence: I'm listening to Dream Theater's "The Great Debate" right now!)