alt Hacker News> even if they immediately throw the output in the metaphorical garbage bin.
Gotta be careful if you do that tho; e.x. Copilot can monitor 'accept' rate, so at bare minimum you'd have to accept the changes than immediately back them out...
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ourmandave • yesterday at 5:44 PM
I wonder if Copilot can write a commit and backout routine for them.
lovich • yesterday at 6:26 PM
If you use AI to back it out, sounds like you’ve found an infinite feedback loop for those metrics.
Did industrial psychology die out as a field? Why do we keep reinventing the wheel when it comes to perverse incentives. It’s like working on a team working with scrum where the big bosses expect the average velocity to go up every sprint, forever, but the engineers are the ones deciding the point totals on tickets.
In a couple years, we'll have office workspaces equipped with EEG helmets that you must wear while working, to measure your sentiment upon seeing LLM-generated code. The worst performers get the boot, so you better be happy!