Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by slg on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:05PM
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This is taking what I said further than intended. I'm not saying the standard review process should catch the AI generated mistakes. I'm saying this work is at the level of someone who can and will make plenty of stupid mistakes. It therefore needs to be thoroughly reviewed by the person using before it is even up to the standard of a typical employee's work that the normal review process generally assumes.
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by lotyrin on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:00PM
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Yep, in the case of open source contributions as an example, the bottleneck isn't contributors producing and proposing patches, it's a maintainer deciding if the proposal has merit, whipping (or asking contributors to whip) patches into shape, making sure it integrates, etc. If contributors use generative AI to increase the load on the bottleneck it is likely to cause a negative net effect.
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by skydhash on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:11PM
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This very much. Most of the time, it's not a code issue, it's a communication issue. Patches are generally small, it's the whole communication around it until both parties have a common understanding that takes so much time. If the contributor comes with no understanding of his patch, that breaks the whole premise of the conversation.
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by SequoiaHope on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:07PM
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I can still complain about the added workload of inaccurate code.
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by chairmansteve on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:12PM
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If 10 times more code is being created, you need 10 times as many code reviewers..
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by collingreen on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:35PM
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Plus the overhead of coordinating the reviewers as well!
Re:ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
by Quarrelsome on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:01PM
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"Corporate says the review process needs to be relaxed because its preventing our AI agents from checking in their code"
This is especially true in open source where contributions aren’t limited to employees who passed a hiring screen.