AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Post by grey-area » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:41 AM UTC

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I have seen plenty of "my backlog has never been shorter" comments here. I'm interested in how that turns out 6 months later. In my team, we have plenty of enhancement requests from users. We address those that make obvious sense and are trivial to do but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small. Because we don't know if there is more than a single user that can actually benefit from i…

> but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small. Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of gatekeeping "we know better" from programmers.

Post by verdverm » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

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Shell scripts on their own already are so perilous without static analysis. I'll never understand how we ended up deciding that embed them in yaml instead of requiring an external script file was a reasonable idea.

YAML seems reasonable because it allows the sequence of steps to be treated as data , which then enables GUI visualisation, introspection, etc... without actually having to run anything. That's critical for a platform like GitHub and for devops pipelines in general. The failure is that "data" ends up being a "terrible custom DSL" that is bad at everything: Not good at data, not a good DSL, and not even a proper progr…

Post by Rebuff5007 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 8:12 AM UTC

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Difference is in how you sell it. We all know that people make mistakes. I.e. crash a car from time to time. We all are sold a view that AI will save humanity, cure all diseases, solve all problems, allow for autonomous driving and many other (lies?). While making basic mistakes or crashing on trivial crossroads.. Hype is way overblown.

The anti-hype is also way overblown. Nobody is saying that today's AI is omniscient and never makes mistakes. Future models will make fewer mistakes. They will still not hook into the universe with a cheat code and do everything at 100 percent reliability. It's a straw man.

Post by twistedpair » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

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YAML is a nightmare fuel spec. In its quest to make markup "human readable", it has created countless footguns. I honestly prefer XML at this point.

Yeah, the YAMLification of everything kinda killed my ability to understand "everything". Previously, if you knew the Linux userland well, I felt like you could figure anything out with enough digging. Take CI for example, it was Jenkins and it ran a csh/bash/zsh whatever script and captured the output. Nice and simple (even if the scripts sometimes got insane). GitHub actions is nothing like that. Weird home grown e…

Post by hutattedonmyarm » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

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There _is_ a json variant with comments, so that’s what you’ve seen. Not all parsers support that though

Are you denying what I've seen with my own eyes? I am saying it was an object like this: { "//":"make sure these are divisible by 8", "width": 640, "height": 480 }