Comment by mrguyorama
2 days ago
But none of that matters.
If LLMs can one shot a mostly working patch of some sort for your use case, and you can't be assed to take the effort to go through it and make sure it's rock solid and up to spec, then do not submit a PR with that code because that's stupid, and literally any other human being with a claude subscription can also one shot a mostly working patch for their needs
AI PRs are worthless, because if they are that good, nobody needs to share anything anymore anyway! If they aren't that good, they are spam.
The reason people keep committing giant LLM PRs is that they are deluded and morons, and somehow believe that both their ideas are magically important, LLMs trivially turn those ideas into quality output, and somehow nobody else can do that as well.
It's just ego. Believing that only YOU can contribute something produced by a machine that takes natural human language as input is asinine. Anyone can produce it. And if anyone can produce it, nobody needs YOU to submit a PR.
If you prompted an LLM to produce code, then so can the maintainers of the project. Why are you so full of yourself that you think they require you to generate a PR for them? Do you think OSS programmers don't know how to use LLMs?
I agree fully and I think it can be condensed quite a bit further: you get paid to code, so code. And if it is free work for instance in an open source context realize that dumping trash into the workflow has a negative cost so the effect is much the same, even if you didn't get paid others also don't get paid to review your junk.