Comment by InexSquirrel
18 hours ago
God I hate the emoji and checkmark usage so much. It feels so try-hard cutesy.
Just give me normal bulleted items, I can read.
18 hours ago
God I hate the emoji and checkmark usage so much. It feels so try-hard cutesy.
Just give me normal bulleted items, I can read.
I like them. It tells very clearly how much effort went into someone's work.
I like them even more on code comments. It tells _precisely_ how much effort went into the pull request, so I don't spend time reviewing lazy work.
It does not at all indicate the effort that went into doing the thing. Clearly not.
I propose that what you enjoy is having a token of the appearance of effort, easily constructed and easily observed and easily suitable for low-effort handling of these proxy objects for actual work.
I think you’re missing the sarcasm in their comment.
They’re saying that the emoji usage is telling them that very little effort was put into the PR and that they’ll treat it accordingly.
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So you just rubber-stamp the lazy work? What else can you do when this PR is assigned to you specifically for reviewing?
Recently I reviewed some vibe-coded stuff and sent a list of issues and suggestions to the “author,” figuring he’d read it and then go through each one with Claude until fixed.
Instead he didn’t read it at all, and just threw the whole thing at Claude Code as a big prompt. The result was… interesting!
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The last place I worked for, if it happened with someone new in the company or the team, I would find a polite way to say "do your job and fix this shit" and it worked.
Some people have put me on their blacklists after these interactions, sure, but they're the exact people I don't want to work with again. The important thing here is that I've never done someone else's work for free.
I guess they just close the PR.
You tell Claude to review it and if it breaks something you blame Claude. No one can get mad at you for it because they don't want to look like luddites.
I wonder if we humans are already checking out from PR reviews from human effort that we've misjudged as AI. we are in so much trouble! lol
Lazy or efficient? A dev could spend an hour on something or 10 mins, if the outcome is the same what's does it matter?
Because the reviewer ends up doing the real work actually checking it works.
The laziness is offloading work down the line.
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Checkmarks as bullets on progress/comparison lists I really like, assuming you mean //. The emoji properly put me off looking deeper into whatever it is that I am looking at unless I was really interested to start with.
Both predate common use of LLMs, unless my memory is even more shaky than usual on this, but must have been over-represented in the training data (or something in the tokenising/training/other processes magnifies the effective presence of punctuation) because LLMs seem to love spewing them out.
seriously! it feels so over the top.