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Comment by grey-area

5 hours ago

Is this entire repo satire?

It's a bunch of text files in a repo with massive churn (all new version 5!), but somehow even the technical debt 'skill' (i.e. text file) has technical debt itself:

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/blob/main/skills/...

> ...every ponytail shortcut is marked with a shortcut: comment ... (older code may say ponytail:).

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frevib  5 hours ago

That’s what I thought. Then a colleague introduced it for real in a code review.

It doesn’t matter if it’s satire. Developers seem to be so vulnerable to all these AI promises of ‘automating’ everything.

BTW it’s terrible. It gave two very hollow suggestions that did not solve the real problem. Hour wasted, angry colleagues, no code change.

  • grey-area  4 hours ago

    The AI craze very much reminds me of the crypto craze a few years ago - lots of people new to the industry jumping on the latest trend and building tooling for something that doesn't need tooling, trying to sell shovels in a gold rush, but just spending years creating a gold-plated shovel which nobody needs instead.