Comment by giancarlostoro
2 hours ago
> I pointed the AI at the tedious parts, the stuff that makes a 14k-line PR possible but no human wants to hand-write: implementing every fs method variant (sync, callback, promises), wiring up test coverage, and generating docs.
This is the biggest takeaway for me for AI. It's not even that nobody wants to do these things, its that by the time you finish your tasks, you have no time to do these things, because your manage / scrum master / powers that be want you to work on the next task.
That's perfectly understandable. But has no business being in a large open source project, let alone world class one like Node or (god forbid) the Linux kernel. Get that shit the fuck out.
I think the insight there is that the increased productivity of AI could be used to add features where the end results are weighing the ability of the AI against the ability of an individual implementing the same thing.
The alternative is that you work on the same number of features and utilize the ability to make those features as robust as you know they could be, but you have other pressing matters to attend to. That's weighing the ability of AI against the ability of neglect.