I'm now realizing that AI could be quite useful for introducing bugs for mutation testing. I'm going to have to try that.
Indeed, it would make mistakes similar to common mistakes in the web at large.
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Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#52What (presumably!) was built as a joke will actually help me a lot. For my side-project (devscreen.io) we have to make lots of realistic coding tests and pull requests with bugs in them for candidates to work on as part of a technical interview. It's actually more time consuming than you'd think to intentionally insert bugs into code in a way that isn't super obvious, so thank you!
Just ask half the candidates to add a feature to the code, ask the other half to find the bug.
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Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#54What (presumably!) was built as a joke will actually help me a lot. For my side-project (devscreen.io) we have to make lots of realistic coding tests and pull requests with bugs in them for candidates to work on as part of a technical interview. It's actually more time consuming than you'd think to intentionally insert bugs into code in a way that isn't super obvious, so thank you!
I think use cases like this are the right ones for generated code from language models. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of training data is more buggy than not and literally writing the code is only half of what it takes. The other half is comprehension of the problem it solves which is usually missing from documentation at the level of mere snippets.
Something I wonder is what the computing landscape (and tech recruiting) will looks like once we reach a critical mass of "GitHub Co-Pilot native" devs. Especially with the bootcamp craze.
Are we going to see hires basically trying code generation until it builds?
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#55I'd love to see a feature that creates tests that don't actually test anything
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#56Ah, I was waiting for somebody to implement something like this.
Now you just need to write a bot that floods github with shitty code, and we've got job security again.
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#57Something like this could be good for malware authors as a new obfuscation tool. Would be awesome if it still delivered working code and could recurse so the level of nasty was tunable.
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#58What (presumably!) was built as a joke will actually help me a lot. For my side-project (devscreen.io) we have to make lots of realistic coding tests and pull requests with bugs in them for candidates to work on as part of a technical interview. It's actually more time consuming than you'd think to intentionally insert bugs into code in a way that isn't super obvious, so thank you!
Bugs-as-a-Service (BAAS)
"Because, you see, bugs are a way of connecting people to the real world. Reminding them that, at the end of the day, it is just a game."
— Matt Jablonsky, Head of Bug Creation Department
Quote from an Aprils Fools video for The Witcher 3.
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#59Excellent! I, for one, recommend using this tool to make parallel versions of important files in every github repo. If the AI can't learn to keep their hands out of the honey jar, they don't deserve to survive.
Re: Show HN: Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI
#60Awesome. Evil ideas for improvements. Random typos in class name, function names, comments, such as: inheritance -> enheritance class -> clas cannot -> cannont Pick related words: person -> user, account, customer Random swapping plural/singular users -> user Append "Class" to classnames. example: User -> UsersClass Insert rant comments about, politics, religion, profanity.
Don't forget homonyms: InActive (not active) inActive (in the Active list)
I'm so triggered