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This is a subjective statement. What kind of evidence you're expecting here? Like: — My new car is much better than my old car — Hurr durr, how can you make t

This is a subjective statement. What kind of evidence you're expecting here? Like: — My new car is much better than my old car — Hurr durr, how can you make those confident statements without showing any evidence, huh? It's not that deep.

27183 3mo ago
Subjective or not, there wasn't a single example of a "good" AI generated commit message or refactoring or whatever in the whole thing. If they're so good why not just show it? It's just weird. "My new car is much better than my old car" is not something you'd reference your 27 years of car experience as evidence for--you'd just say what's good about your new car and what was bad about your old one, right?
- bloody-crow 3mo ago
  "Newer cars are much better than older cars". How about this? It'd be weird to ask for evidence of that statement cause it's very generic and there's like a million instances of newer cars that are shit and old cars that are brilliant. But in general the statement totally holds and you'd need to be insane to be arguing otherwise. Having 27 years of driving cars experience would add weight to the opinion stated, but otherwise not provide any substantive credible evidence. I only have 17 years of experience and I fully agree with the author here. This is my personal opinion and I would not be fucked to respond to any demands for evidence since those demands are not meant to be satisfiable in the first place.
  - 27183 3mo ago
    When I read commit messages and comments Claude makes a large fraction of the time they don't seem terribly related to the code, nor necessarily relevant to the problem at hand. The commits don't generally make a great deal of logical, linear sense either. Reviewing Claude PRs commit-by-commit is kind of nauseating. I only have 12yrs of experience though so I must be wrong. I'll defer to you guys. Sure would be nice to know wtf everyone's so excited about though I just don't get it.
    - bloody-crow 3mo ago
      News flash: you can tell LLMs how to do shit and they're generally pretty good at following instructions. Those things are good enough to solve novel math problems I've never even heard about, surely it can figure out how you like your commit messages and apply it a million times over in the time it'd take you to make yourself a cup of coffee.

27183 3mo ago

Subjective or not, there wasn't a single example of a "good" AI generated commit message or refactoring or whatever in the whole thing. If they're so good why not just show it? It's just weird. "My new car is much better than my old car" is not something you'd reference your 27 years of car experience as evidence for--you'd just say what's good about your new car and what was bad about your old one, right?

bloody-crow 3mo ago
"Newer cars are much better than older cars". How about this? It'd be weird to ask for evidence of that statement cause it's very generic and there's like a million instances of newer cars that are shit and old cars that are brilliant. But in general the statement totally holds and you'd need to be insane to be arguing otherwise. Having 27 years of driving cars experience would add weight to the opinion stated, but otherwise not provide any substantive credible evidence. I only have 17 years of experience and I fully agree with the author here. This is my personal opinion and I would not be fucked to respond to any demands for evidence since those demands are not meant to be satisfiable in the first place.
- 27183 3mo ago
  When I read commit messages and comments Claude makes a large fraction of the time they don't seem terribly related to the code, nor necessarily relevant to the problem at hand. The commits don't generally make a great deal of logical, linear sense either. Reviewing Claude PRs commit-by-commit is kind of nauseating. I only have 12yrs of experience though so I must be wrong. I'll defer to you guys. Sure would be nice to know wtf everyone's so excited about though I just don't get it.
  - bloody-crow 3mo ago
    News flash: you can tell LLMs how to do shit and they're generally pretty good at following instructions. Those things are good enough to solve novel math problems I've never even heard about, surely it can figure out how you like your commit messages and apply it a million times over in the time it'd take you to make yourself a cup of coffee.