Comment by augment_me

This is the first question I ask, and every time I get the answer of some monolith that supposedly solves something. Imo, this is completely fine for any personal thing, I am happy when someone says they made an API to compare weekly shopping prices from the stores around them, or some recipe, this makes sense.

However more often than not, someone is just building a monolithic construction that will never be looked at again. For example, someone found that HuggingFace dataloader was slow for some type of file size in combination with some disk. What does this warrant? A 300000+ line non-reviewed repo to fix this issue. Not a 200-line PR to HuggingFace, no you need to generate 20% of the existing repo and then slap your thing on there.

For me this is puzzling, because what is this for? Who is this for? Usually people built these things for practice, but now its generated, so its not for practice because you made very little effort on it. The only thing I can see that its some type of competence signaling, but here again, if the engineer/manager looking knows that this is generated, it does not have the type of value that would come with such signaling. Either I am naive and people still look at these repos and go "whoa this is amazing", or it's some kind of induced egotrip/delusion where the LLM has convinced you that you are the best builder.