I think I’m giving them a pass as well. It’s been months since and everything is still okay. From what I can see it looks like some experiments. With quite a good chunk of manual intervention, review and then changing around things and force-pushing a correct (probably human-written) version. I wonder if it even saved them time. Maybe they reconsidered their approach since, the last of those PRs is from end of August. At least they seem to be transparent and pay a good amount of attention to what Copilot does.
I think vibe-coding and AI assisted programming is a bit weird anyway. My own experience is mostly negative. I’ve experimented with it nonetheless. Idk, lots of programmers are clever but also curious people. They’ll try things and figure it out eventually. And looks to me like they might be roughly on the right track here. And I’ll agree, it doesn’t really matter whether they review pull requests from a 14 year old, or russian hacker in disguise or AI. It’s always the same process with pull requests and you never know who’s at the other end and what their motivations are. It’s highly problematic if people bury developers in AI slop, but if they choose so themselves, they’re mostly equipped to deal with it. At least in theory and if they’re good at their job.
Some individual motivation… Curiosity. Fascination with new tech. Or the prospect of maybe saving time and then evaluating if that’s the case. Idk, I’ve tried it as well and it doesn’t seem to save me time but that’s one of the the big promises of AI. I think we all know how AI delivers on its promises overall. But learning and experimenting (with some due diligence) is rarely amongst the problematic aspects of something. But it kind of comes first or you can’t learn about the truth.
I think I’m giving them a pass as well. It’s been months since and everything is still okay. From what I can see it looks like some experiments. With quite a good chunk of manual intervention, review and then changing around things and force-pushing a correct (probably human-written) version. I wonder if it even saved them time. Maybe they reconsidered their approach since, the last of those PRs is from end of August. At least they seem to be transparent and pay a good amount of attention to what Copilot does.
I think vibe-coding and AI assisted programming is a bit weird anyway. My own experience is mostly negative. I’ve experimented with it nonetheless. Idk, lots of programmers are clever but also curious people. They’ll try things and figure it out eventually. And looks to me like they might be roughly on the right track here. And I’ll agree, it doesn’t really matter whether they review pull requests from a 14 year old, or russian hacker in disguise or AI. It’s always the same process with pull requests and you never know who’s at the other end and what their motivations are. It’s highly problematic if people bury developers in AI slop, but if they choose so themselves, they’re mostly equipped to deal with it. At least in theory and if they’re good at their job.
Yeah not sure what the point is if it’s not saving any time anyway
Some individual motivation… Curiosity. Fascination with new tech. Or the prospect of maybe saving time and then evaluating if that’s the case. Idk, I’ve tried it as well and it doesn’t seem to save me time but that’s one of the the big promises of AI. I think we all know how AI delivers on its promises overall. But learning and experimenting (with some due diligence) is rarely amongst the problematic aspects of something. But it kind of comes first or you can’t learn about the truth.