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5 days ago
The duplication I'm seeing isn't just "same text repeated" but structural duplication. Doing a quick 5 minute look again just to give you some pointers; runtime.MountSpec construction in buildMounts, Workdir vs aux-dir mount-mode handling, repeated one-off mount append blocks, overlay detection and so on, the list goes on. Just those should account for 200+ lines.
Look for slight variations of the same thing but with different paths, variables, or modes and I think you'd be able to spot the rest as well.
You consider adding in-place constructed items to an array to be code duplication?
I've noticed that the bar for "quality" when people judge AI is often significantly higher than what they'd hold a human to. I'm not saying GP et al are doing this (I haven't looked myself), but it is a widespread pattern I've noticed both professionally and personally. I don't know why it is.
The bar isn't any higher. There's just no grace given. No one is judging a hobby project made by a human on quality, and the person who the hobby project belongs to will rarely say that their code is high quality. And in a professional setting, I think people are fine with "good enough" but they're not going to claim anything is high-quality.
But people are so quick to label their vibe-coded codebase as high quality and no grace is going to be given to a machine.
What comments are you seeing that are calling code from humans high-quality?
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People who use AI set the bar themselves when they claim they generate "very high quality work using Claude". Humans more rarely make such claims about the code they write themselves, but when they do, I expect they face similar scrutiny.
AI code is competent, but it's not great or high quality unless you have a good enough eye for quality to steer it with an iron hand. But if you do, you know the quality comes from proper guidance, so you still wouldn't say AI code is great. If you do say exactly that, it comes across as having low standards (which is fine if you own it) and people are going to jump on that just to bring you down a peg.
> "I've noticed that the bar for 'quality' when people judge AI is often significantly higher than what they'd hold a human to."
Because that is literally the hype being fed to us by the marketers at the AI companies and HN users promoting AI.
- AI promoters: "AI is doing Ph.D level work! LLMs are not just a token predictor, it is actually thinking and reasoning! It will replace all developers, including _you_, so get on board the AI hype train now!"
- AI promoters when confronted with blatant mistakes and reasoning errors from cutting edge models: "Why are you holding LLMs up to higher standards than humans? That's not fair or reasonable."
I have seen it too. The answer is easy - they don’t like AI. I've seen similar things with some people that don’t like women in tech or certain minorities - they suddenly critique at an extremely high level. I also haven’t looked at this particular case, but it wouldn’t surprise me to be the same thing here.
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