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When 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 L

by nake89 10mo ago

When 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 10mo ago
In 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...
- poulpy123 10mo ago
  I cannot believe it's not trolling
  - franktankbank 10mo ago
    Intentional or not its an interesting social experiment.
  - victorbjorklund 10mo ago
    Yeah, either this guy's totally insane or it could even be somebody who's an AI skeptic who's just flooding projects with really dumb PRs just to show the risks and get people skeptical about the use of AI in open source (Takes on my folie hat)
    - manwe150 10mo ago
      That is a curious take. Open source projects were flooded by dumb PRs before AI too, so what would it prove?
- monegator 10mo ago
  that's a grifter doing grifting. there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past as a failure / grifter in many areas, running away with the money at the first problem
  - zipy124 10mo ago
    I'd be willing to put money that before LLMs they were all in ok crypto
    - beAbU 10mo ago
      When looking at this history here on HN, he started out in the poker world. I'm not sure if he played, but he wrote a poker engine or something. In my experience, the venn diagram for professional poker players, crypto enthusiasts and grifters have a lot of overlap. But for this guy specifically there's practically complete radio silence during the crypto era. It's only recently with all the AI noise that he's become active here on HN again.

by nake89 10mo ago

Lyngbakr 10mo ago

In 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...

poulpy123 10mo ago
I cannot believe it's not trolling
- franktankbank 10mo ago
  Intentional or not its an interesting social experiment.
- victorbjorklund 10mo ago
  Yeah, either this guy's totally insane or it could even be somebody who's an AI skeptic who's just flooding projects with really dumb PRs just to show the risks and get people skeptical about the use of AI in open source (Takes on my folie hat)
  - manwe150 10mo ago
    That is a curious take. Open source projects were flooded by dumb PRs before AI too, so what would it prove?
monegator 10mo ago
that's a grifter doing grifting. there was a thread on /g/ about this guy the other day, anons digged out much of its past as a failure / grifter in many areas, running away with the money at the first problem
- zipy124 10mo ago
  I'd be willing to put money that before LLMs they were all in ok crypto
  - beAbU 10mo ago
    When looking at this history here on HN, he started out in the poker world. I'm not sure if he played, but he wrote a poker engine or something. In my experience, the venn diagram for professional poker players, crypto enthusiasts and grifters have a lot of overlap. But for this guy specifically there's practically complete radio silence during the crypto era. It's only recently with all the AI noise that he's become active here on HN again.