alt Hacker NewsIt seems weird to get angry about a change that is happening and will continue to happen due to what the market demands from software, which I believe will be the speed/ability to solve problems, rather than its own stewardship
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Sure, if you're shipping a 500MB mobile/web app with a 5s start-up, it probably won't make a difference today, or tomorrow, or 3 months later. The problem is when your codebase is a dumping ground for AI slop and a year from now nobody can make any changes.
Also, it's not just some subjective value put in human review. If a change causes a major outage and it turns out it's because 5 reviewers were all shirking the company-mandated responsibility of review, and it could trivially have been caught, I would 100% expect those people to get fired. It's not a process issue if people are intentionally circumventing the process.
I'm just here to do good software engineering and make good products. If people want to try and circumvent that process to deliberately make the product worse and slow development down, they're bad software engineers, its as simple as that
Nobody thinks its a good idea to fully automate PRs, at least not anyone with software engineering experience. It slows down your ability to solve problems if your code base is an absolute disaster
Again: If someone fully automates everything, what service do they provide? Why are they even there? Especially actively lying in the process when people are trying to force knowledge dissemination with human reviewed PRs