Comment by KurSix
2 days ago
This is a perfect real-world illustration of Brandolini's law: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
The guy spent 5 minutes prompting, while Oсaml maintainers spent hours of their time politely dissecting the mess. Open Source will lose this war unless it changes the rules of engagement for contributions
Try to spin up AI, tell it to add DWARF debugging information to the OCaml tree and then spend 5 minutes prompting. Come back and let us know the results.
What they said is still valid. If you spent days or even weeks "working" on this PR, how many months do you think the maintainers will need to thoroughly review it? Have some empathy.
I am afraid AI bumped it to at least 2 orders of magnitude