Comment by mikelitoris

When confronted about LLM writing completely broken tests the guy said the funniest thing: "It knows what it’s doing but tends to be… lazy."

I'm a big fan of LLMs but this guy is just a joke. He understand nothing of the code the LLM generates. He says things like "The LLM knows".

He is not going to convince anybody to merge is PRs, since he is not even checking that the tests the LLM generates are correct. It's a joke.

  function estimate_method_targets(func_name::Symbol, types::Tuple)
      # Conservative estimate
      # In a real implementation, we'd query the method table
      return 2  # Assume multiple possibilities
  end

Hilarious. Was this model trained on XKCD [0] by any chance?

[0]: https://xkcd.com/221/

As an aside, he originally titled the thread "A complete guide to building static binaries with Julia (updated for 1.12)", with no mention of AI. That got me excited every time I opened the Discourse, until I remembered it was this slop. :/

Well that's the origin story for the main character on Solo Leveling, so...

Actually, I probably shouldn't make this comment publicly. It could cause another 3-5 programmer-isekai anime series.

A question I only dare to ask myself in these times of LLM: Is this even a real human being or already an instance of an ‘agentic system’?

Lot of people are criticising this guy but we all benefit from having an example to show people - this, please don’t do what this guy is doing. Please read the generated code, understand it, edit it and then submit it.

If anyone’s answer to “why does your PR do this” is “I don’t know, the AI did it and I didn’t question it” then they need a time out.

The biggest mistake, AI or not, is dropping a 10K+ PR. 300~500 LOC is how far one should be going, unless they're doing some automated refactoring. E.g. formatting the entire StaticCompiler.jl source. This should've been a distinct PR, preferably by a maintainer.

Please don't tell me you actually spent $1000 on generating fake tests....

It's truly astonishing to me that your account has existed since 2008 and you decided to pull this.

As a troll job for the lulz it is some amazing work. Hats off

You've wasted other peoples time and mental energy with utter bullshit that you weren't even bothered to read yourself. Be more considerate in future.

This isn't just "making mistakes." It's so profoundly obnoxious that I can't imagine what you've actually been doing during your apparently 30 years of experience as a software developer, such that you somehow didn't understand, or don't, why submitting these PRs is completely unacceptable.

The breezy "challenge me on this" and "it's just a proof of concept" remarks are infuriating. Pull requests are not conversation starters. They aren't for promoting something you think people should think about. The self-absorption and self-indulgence beggar belief.

Your homepage repeatedly says you're open to work and want someone to hire you. I can't imagine anybody looking at those PRs or your behavior in the discussions and concluding that you'd be a good addition to a team.

The cluelessness is mind-boggling.

It's so bad that I'm inclined to wonder whether you really are human -- or whether you're someone's stealthy, dishonest LLM experiment.

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