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I feel you, at our workplace someone added some AI Code review thing and it slops the whole PR with useless sequence diagrams and poems (why would I want to rea

by enlyth 1y ago

I feel you, at our workplace someone added some AI Code review thing and it slops the whole PR with useless sequence diagrams and poems (why would I want to read an AI slop poem?) and pages and pages of instructions on how to interact with it. Our Slack channel is also completely slopped to the point it's mostly bot conversations constantly spamming about review reminders, pull request statuses, and other useless info you can just look up yourself if you need it. The signal to noise ratio is to the point where I just ignore everything.

Aeolun 1y ago
You should add a bot to summarize all the messages in those channels!
queenkjuul 1y ago
My boss is obsessed with copilot PR summaries and they make me want to scream. A 12-line PR with a 40-line summary? And each description is "updated and enhanced <file>... Updated and enhanced <file>" There's no utility in reading them, which means asking people more questions directly in slack instead, which genuinely makes the entire process slower for everyone. I know for a fact that no developer in my team would struggle to write 4-5 bullet points for any given PR in less than 2 minutes. My boss just genuinely thinks the slop is better (probably because he's not usually the one reading them) Our Confluence is also rapidly turning into nothing but totally uninformative Claude-generated noise. It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff when the end results can be so obviously wasteful and unhelpful.
- bob1029 1y ago
  > It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff I've been employing the strategy of pushing on the customer and product delivery expectations. Ask some variants of the following in your next team meeting: "Where are we at with Customer X?" "How does Bob (the customer's CEO) feel about the project right now?" "How will this sell us more copies or make the customer pay more money?" These kinds of questions can rapidly reorient a team if a member with the power to terminate other employees is present. If the most senior management seems apathetic to these questions and you are interested in building an actual career, it might be time to move on. At some point, the person(s) paying for everything need to ask themselves if they intend to conduct a serious business or simply run a daycare for neurotic tech enthusiasts.
dearilos 1y ago
There is so much slop that you end up ignoring the important stuff AI code review really does help but only when used correctly I'm building the tool to fix that

by enlyth 1y ago

Aeolun 1y ago

You should add a bot to summarize all the messages in those channels!

queenkjuul 1y ago

My boss is obsessed with copilot PR summaries and they make me want to scream. A 12-line PR with a 40-line summary? And each description is "updated and enhanced <file>... Updated and enhanced <file>" There's no utility in reading them, which means asking people more questions directly in slack instead, which genuinely makes the entire process slower for everyone. I know for a fact that no developer in my team would struggle to write 4-5 bullet points for any given PR in less than 2 minutes. My boss just genuinely thinks the slop is better (probably because he's not usually the one reading them) Our Confluence is also rapidly turning into nothing but totally uninformative Claude-generated noise. It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff when the end results can be so obviously wasteful and unhelpful.

bob1029 1y ago
> It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff I've been employing the strategy of pushing on the customer and product delivery expectations. Ask some variants of the following in your next team meeting: "Where are we at with Customer X?" "How does Bob (the customer's CEO) feel about the project right now?" "How will this sell us more copies or make the customer pay more money?" These kinds of questions can rapidly reorient a team if a member with the power to terminate other employees is present. If the most senior management seems apathetic to these questions and you are interested in building an actual career, it might be time to move on. At some point, the person(s) paying for everything need to ask themselves if they intend to conduct a serious business or simply run a daycare for neurotic tech enthusiasts.

dearilos 1y ago

There is so much slop that you end up ignoring the important stuff AI code review really does help but only when used correctly I'm building the tool to fix that