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oh god... he has a humongous AI generated PR for julia too https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/180 https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull
by mikelitoris 11mo ago
oh god... he has a humongous AI generated PR for julia too https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/180 https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/180
- ljm 11mo agoThe people of Jonestown collectively drank less kool-aid than all this. I don't know whether to be worried or impressed.
- joelreymont 11mo agoI had $1000 in Claude credits and went to town. Yes, I made mistakes along the way.
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- forgotpwd16 11mo agoThe biggest mistake, AI or not, is dropping a 10K+ PR. 300~500 LOC is how far one should be going, unless they're doing some automated refactoring. E.g. formatting the entire StaticCompiler.jl source. This should've been a distinct PR, preferably by a maintainer.
- joelreymont 11mo agoI agree with you.
- VMG 11mo agoI've seen this in other places as well. The bottleneck is not coding or creating a PR, the bottleneck is the review.
- joelreymont 11mo agoThis ought to be automated using AI. It could first judge whether the PR is frivolous, then try to review it, then flag a human if necessary. The problem is that Github, or whatever system hosts the process, should actively prevent projects from being DDOS-ed with PR reviews since using AI costs real money.
- VMG 11mo agoI mean this with all sincerity, try doing this yourself. The established projects are resistant to YOLOing their projects and running them on complete LLM autopilot. You are proposing a completely different development style. Fork Ocaml to Oca-LLM and Julia to Jul-AI and see how it goes.
- joelreymont 11mo agoI'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now. I do think this is where we are heading, though. No, existing open source projects are not ready for this and likely won't ever be. It will start in the corporate world and maybe already has.
- VMG 11mo ago> This ought to be automated using AI. ... > I'm not trying to say that this is now projects ought to work right now. which is it?
- joelreymont 11mo agoIt's both but the focus is on the future.
- messe 11mo ago> This ought to be automated using AI. When the world is telling you to fucking stop, maybe take a moment and listen.
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- Anon1096 11mo agoIt's truly astonishing to me that your account has existed since 2008 and you decided to pull this. As a troll job for the lulz it is some amazing work. Hats off
- messe 11mo agoYou've wasted other peoples time and mental energy with utter bullshit that you weren't even bothered to read yourself. Be more considerate in future.
- globnomulous 11mo agoThis isn't just "making mistakes." It's so profoundly obnoxious that I can't imagine what you've actually been doing during your apparently 30 years of experience as a software developer, such that you somehow didn't understand, or don't, why submitting these PRs is completely unacceptable. The breezy "challenge me on this" and "it's just a proof of concept" remarks are infuriating. Pull requests are not conversation starters. They aren't for promoting something you think people should think about. The self-absorption and self-indulgence beggar belief. Your homepage repeatedly says you're open to work and want someone to hire you. I can't imagine anybody looking at those PRs or your behavior in the discussions and concluding that you'd be a good addition to a team. The cluelessness is mind-boggling. It's so bad that I'm inclined to wonder whether you really are human -- or whether you're someone's stealthy, dishonest LLM experiment.
- zipy124 11mo agoPlease don't tell me you actually spent $1000 on generating fake tests....
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- sundarurfriend 11mo agoMore context/discussion on this: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ai-generated-enhancements-and-examples-for-staticcompiler-jl/134054 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ai-generated-enhancements-... (Honestly, that's a lot more patience than I'd be able to give what are mostly AI-generated replies, so kudos to these folk.)
- sundarurfriend 11mo agoAs an aside, he originally titled the thread "A complete guide to building static binaries with Julia (updated for 1.12)", with no mention of AI. That got me excited every time I opened the Discourse, until I remembered it was this slop. :/
- legobmw99 11mo agoSimilar things on the OCaml forums. He has a post titled “Dune: concurrent builds are here!” but really it’s a +967 -100 slop PR that had to be closed
- nake89 11mo agoWhen confronted about LLM writing completely broken tests the guy said the funniest thing: "It knows what it’s doing but tends to be… lazy." I'm a big fan of LLMs but this guy is just a joke. He understand nothing of the code the LLM generates. He says things like "The LLM knows". He is not going to convince anybody to merge is PRs, since he is not even checking that the tests the LLM generates are correct. It's a joke.
- Lyngbakr 11mo agoIn a submission to OCaml, when asked why the files he submitted list someone else as an author he says, > Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it.° I find that sort of attitude terrifying. ° https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-3557357958 https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-35573...
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- conartist6 11mo agoMaybe this guy is it: the actual worst coder in the world
- testdelacc1 11mo agoLot of people are criticising this guy but we all benefit from having an example to show people - this, please don’t do what this guy is doing. Please read the generated code, understand it, edit it and then submit it. If anyone’s answer to “why does your PR do this” is “I don’t know, the AI did it and I didn’t question it” then they need a time out.
- CoastalCoder 11mo agoWell that's the origin story for the main character on Solo Leveling, so... Actually, I probably shouldn't make this comment publicly. It could cause another 3-5 programmer-isekai anime series.
- smartmic 11mo agoA question I only dare to ask myself in these times of LLM: Is this even a real human being or already an instance of an ‘agentic system’?
- zipy124 11mo agoI guess we now have the equivalent of cowboy builders but for software now. Except no one asked for anything to be built in this case lol.