alt Hacker NewsLLMs moved the moments of despair to PR reviews for me. It used to be that you could check on a junior dev occassionally throughout the day to make sure they're on the right track. Now you step away for 2 hours and they're raising a PR of bad code smell spaghetti and moving on to repeat their AI slopfest on the next task.
It's getting hard to keep up with trying to teach new devs what bad code looks like. And I swear sometimes they just copy my PR comments into their AI tool to fix the mistakes without any of the learning.
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Don’t allow juniors to use AI. It’s like university exams: no programmable calculators allowed. Review assistants or senior who know what’s going on should though, it does help when used correctly
Write a damn good automated review agent that runs against their PRs before even looking at them… works well for me!
At some point there needs to be an uncomfortable conversation about how if all they’re doing is copy pasting everything they get from you into ChatGPT, you can do it yourself for much much cheaper.