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grey-area • today at 7:11 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

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 • today at 7:39 AM

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.

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