alt Hacker NewsI noticed this unusual line in go.mod and got curious why it is using replace for this (typically you would `go get github.com/Masterminds/semver/[email protected]` instead).
replace github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 => github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3 v3.4.0
There is just so much going wrong here.
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They are trying to fix it using this comment but cancelled mid way. Not sure why.
It is so important to use specific prompts for package upgrading.
Think about what a developer would do: - check the latest version online; - look at the changelog; - evaluate if it’s worth to upgrade or an intermediate may be alright in case of code update are necessary;
Of course, the keep these operations among the human ones, but if you really want to automate this part (and you are ready to pay its consequences) you need to mimic the same workflow. I use Gemini and codex to look for package version information online, it checks the change logs from the version I am to the one I’d like to upgrade, I spawn a Claude Opus subagent to check if in the code something needs to be upgraded. In case of major releases, I git clone the two packages and another subagents check if the interfaces I use changed. Finally, I run all my tests and verify everything’s alright.
Yes, it might not still be perfect, but neither am I.
This is more evidence of my core complaint with AI (and why it's not AGI at this point)
The AI hasn't understood what's going on, instead it has pattern matched strings and used those patterns to create new strings that /look/ right, but fail upon inspection.
(The human involved is also failing my Turing test... )
This happens with all agents I've used and package.json files for npm. Instead of using `npm i foo` the agent string-edits package.json and hallucinates some version to install. Usually it's a kind of ok version, but it's not how I would like this to work.
It's worse with renaming things in code. I've yet to see an agent be able to use refactoring tools (if they even exist in VS Code) instead of brute-forcing renames with string replacement or sed. Agents use edit -> build -> read errors -> repeat, instead of using a reliable tool, and it burns a lot more GPU...