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Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

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Re: Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

#21
This is a good example of bad use of AI. If your developer wrote code and tried to open a PR without talking to anyone, without testing, without an observability plan, without even running the code to make sure there are no errors, that would be crazy!

Good AI systems will do all the above.

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Re: Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

#23
post #21

This is a good example of bad use of AI. If your developer wrote code and tried to open a PR without talking to anyone, without testing, without an observability plan, without even running the code to make sure there are no errors, that would be crazy! Good AI systems will do all the above. Sorry to plug, but if you're a developer interested in building on top of langchain and building similar tech, please email me (…

Call it “810 for code”!

https://xkcd.com/810/

Re: Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

#24
post #6

> We do not know what the end goal of the person was but we confronted the person and closed the pull requests. Maybe this was a naïve attempt at inflating their GitHub numbers? Some people use those as a credibility measure when applying to jobs or getting clients.

Hacktoberfest should be interesting this year

oh god not again haha

Re: Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

#25
As a developer, it's important to pay attention how we are using these tools to co-exist, not to be replaced by them. In addition to using these tools, problem solving skills and creativity are going to be the most important parts of software development jobs in the future. Keep your problem solving skills sharp with ChatGPT help and guidance folks: https://github.com/Liopun/leet-chatgpt-extension

Re: Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?

#26
I've said this before, but in the very near future AI will a consume your Jira board, write code, compile it, test it, then raise a PR all without you. In fact, it might not even bother with a PR because the output will be so good it will be comparable to a human trying to critique the moves of stockfish in Chess.

Devs who think they're "optimising their workflow" with AI are in lala land. Understand that soon you're not going to be needed to prompt ChatGPT to do your work for you. You're not going to be a 10x engineer, you're going to be an unemployed one. You're current workflow of copying ACs into ChatGPT then copying the output into VSCode will also be automated soon, obviously.

Learn hard skills now as it will buy you a few years. We have all been given a death sentence and most people are still yet to understand this. It's unlikely that in the future we're building humans will be needed, let alone our inefficient labour.

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