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It lets people make more PRs. Woohoo. Who cares? Does it increase the number of things that pass QA? Do the things done with AI assistance have fewer bugs cau
by MBCook 2y ago
It lets people make more PRs. Woohoo. Who cares?
Does it increase the number of things that pass QA?
Do the things done with AI assistance have fewer bugs caught after QA?
Are they easier to extend or modify later? Or do they have rigid and inflexible designs?
A tool that can help turn developers into unknown quality code monkeys is not something I’m looking for. I’m looking for a tool that helps developers find bugs or design flaws in what they’re doing. Or maybe write well designed tests.
Just counting PRs doesn’t tell me anything useful. But it triggers my gut feeling that more code per unit time = lower average quality.
- anthomtb 2y agoDev - “Hey copilot, please split this commit into 5 separate commits” Copilot - “okay I can do that for you! Here are your new commits!” Senior Dev - “why? Your change is atomic. I’ll tell management to f-off, in a kind way, if they bring up those silly change-per-month metrics again”