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Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:43AM (#49131396)
At this point, I no longer consider those who spam PRs to be users; I liken them to a type of vandals. They simply slow down genuine contributors who could be working on more productive tasks but are forced to review all that sloppy code instead.
Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:33AM (#49131342)
The technical debt in these projects that are widely accepting this type of AI contribution scares me a lot.

In a few years, we’re going to suffer the consequences of this.

Re:GCC steering committee announces AI policy on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:28AM (#49131310)
> I know well objects to AI auto-completion in your editor, but neither does anybody want to let AI open pull requests autonomously.

I think it’s more about turning language models into your smart intern, rather than letting them do all your work or become your moronic boss.

In any case, I do think there could be room for AI in the future—for instance, in academic research. I recently saw a news story about an AI that managed to detect certain types of cancer based on a specific blood test; I consider that a justifiable use of AI. However, using it to autonomously send PRs? That strikes me as going too far.

Re:Hacker News, GitHub and AI on Friday July 31, 2026 @08:14PM (#49129933)
I believe we’ll only find out when the bubble bursts; until then, technical debt will keep mounting, and we’ll see a significant number of "vibe-coded" repositories gaining traction.
I’m tired of banging my head against a wall; it seems that no matter how hard I try to explain the illegitimacy of the "isn't real" state, people just engage in mental gymnastics to find justifications that fit their confirmation bias.

I feel like I’m losing my mind more and more for defending a basic shred of humanity: that Palestine has the right to exist and that territory belongs to them.

Yet, due to external factors, a large portion of the population in my country insists on defending genocide while feigning a virtue that never existed—all while putting on airs of erudition. As if I were the stupid one for simply being human.