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Such a luxury, I am envious! Our team started using AI, so I switched to a simple method: no comments, and a binary "is this batshit crazy or passable" approva

Such a luxury, I am envious! Our team started using AI, so I switched to a simple method: no comments, and a binary "is this batshit crazy or passable" approval decision rule. Saving myself time and sanity.

acedTrex 4mo ago
Yep, without a decent team culture this is what LLMs force, the slop deluge is just overwhelming without leadership asserting "no, stop" Ultimately you just let bugs through because the alternative is spend an inordinate amount of time communicating with someones claude through PR comments about what the shape should be. Career was fun while it lasted. I suppose its a blessing a to get to do a job that you enjoyed for as many years as I did.
- morganherlocker 4mo ago
  Disapprove and ask for a call where the author must verbally explain the changes to receive approval? This seems like a solvable problem, and one that already existed in repos with many contributors of varying skill (open source, bigco with lots of interns). Letting bugs through is an even bigger time sink.
  - tarentel 4mo ago
    If you work at a small shop that may work. Everyone is 100xer now thanks to AI. No one has time to actually go through all this nonsense, not even the people who "wrote" it. Approve and pray you're not the one on call is the only viable strategy for some.
  - acedTrex 4mo ago
    It comes down to culture on the team, if you think your leadership will allow that/you won't get a bad perf review for doing it go for it. That is sadly not a lot of peoples reality.
Sharlin 4mo ago
In other words, AI code is owned by nobody.
- randusername 4mo ago
  AI code is owned by owners and society is figuring out in real-time if code has some inherent value without humans that understand it. I'll be really interested to follow what comes out of the Bun team.
- kibwen 4mo ago
  It's not innacurate to say that AI code becomes legacy code the instant it's merged.
- nijave 4mo ago
  Tragedy of the commons
- stronglikedan 4mo ago
  AI is just another tool in a developer's toolbox. The developer owns their output, regardless of the tools they used. Same as it always has been.

acedTrex 4mo ago

Yep, without a decent team culture this is what LLMs force, the slop deluge is just overwhelming without leadership asserting "no, stop" Ultimately you just let bugs through because the alternative is spend an inordinate amount of time communicating with someones claude through PR comments about what the shape should be. Career was fun while it lasted. I suppose its a blessing a to get to do a job that you enjoyed for as many years as I did.

morganherlocker 4mo ago
Disapprove and ask for a call where the author must verbally explain the changes to receive approval? This seems like a solvable problem, and one that already existed in repos with many contributors of varying skill (open source, bigco with lots of interns). Letting bugs through is an even bigger time sink.
- tarentel 4mo ago
  If you work at a small shop that may work. Everyone is 100xer now thanks to AI. No one has time to actually go through all this nonsense, not even the people who "wrote" it. Approve and pray you're not the one on call is the only viable strategy for some.
- acedTrex 4mo ago
  It comes down to culture on the team, if you think your leadership will allow that/you won't get a bad perf review for doing it go for it. That is sadly not a lot of peoples reality.

Sharlin 4mo ago

In other words, AI code is owned by nobody.

randusername 4mo ago
AI code is owned by owners and society is figuring out in real-time if code has some inherent value without humans that understand it. I'll be really interested to follow what comes out of the Bun team.
kibwen 4mo ago
It's not innacurate to say that AI code becomes legacy code the instant it's merged.
nijave 4mo ago
Tragedy of the commons
stronglikedan 4mo ago
AI is just another tool in a developer's toolbox. The developer owns their output, regardless of the tools they used. Same as it always has been.