alt Hacker Newsif someone submits a code revision and it fixes a bug or adds a useful feature that most of your users found useful, you reject it outright because it was not written by hand? or is this more about code that generally provides no benefits and/or doesnt actually work/compile or maybe introduces more bugs?
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If you know what you're doing, you can achieve good results with more or less any tool, including a properly-wielded coding agent. The problem is people who _don't_ know what they're doing.
I advise you read the article, it gives many specific examples of things that qualify for such treatment:
> A 600-word commit message or sprawling theoretical essay explaining a profound paradigm shift for a single typo correction or theoretical bug.
> Importing a completely nonexistent, hallucinated library called utils.helpers and hoping no one would notice.
There's plenty more. All pretty egregious
> if someone submits a code revision and it fixes a bug or adds a useful feature that most of your users found useful, you reject it outright because it was not written by hand?
If they didn't read it, then neither will I, otherwise we have this weird arms race where you submit 200 PRs per day to 200 different projects, wasting 1hr of each project, 200 hrs total, while incurring only 8hrs of your time.
If your PR took less time to create and submit than it takes the maintainer to read, then you didn't read your own PR!
Your PR time is writing time + reading time. The maintainer time is reading time only, albeit more carefully.