alt Hacker NewsMerely counting PRs is not very impressive to me. My pre LLM average is around 50/week anyway. But I’m not going to claim that somehow makes me the best programmer ever. I’m sure someone with 1 super valuable PR can easily create more value than I do.
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wakawaka28 • last Friday at 12:40 AM
A bunch of tiny PRs is not hard to do manually. But LLMs can write boatloads of code to do kind of sophisticated things. You do have to figure out how to get to a point where you can trust the code. But the LLMs can help you write boatloads of tests too based on plain English descriptions.
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Maybe I'm just in a weird place, but I can't imagine 50 PRs a week.
Maybe it's because I spend a lot of my time just turning problem reports reports on slack into tickets with tables of results and stack traces.