alt Hacker NewsThe point of the "grammar nazi" bots is to focus on the actual problems: if a bot is deciding about linting, you don't have to waste brain power to discuss it in PRs.
It is what it is, everyone gets the same, shut up and work on what matters.
I'm surprised you consider it a lot of energy spent, I tend not to spend any on this, it just runs automatically on my code and I drop out of pretty much every discussions about linting as it's good enough with automated tools.
I also used to work in places where there was no such tools, and there I had to actually spend time discussing and thinking about linting.
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And yet, a new argument surfaces about whether or not the linking should take place. Some people just like to argue :)
>The point of the "grammar nazi" bots is to focus on the actual problems: if a bot is deciding about linting, you don't have to waste brain power to discuss it in PRs.
And yet, as per the example, the bot force worse linting decisions, and even pushes towards more bugs (e.g. future readers missing the comment intention since it now applies to all 3).
Even better: if someone feels like the syntax must be different, they can pick it up at a centralized repository with more people that specialize in syntax.
Afterwards it will affect production code everywhere on the planet. :)
Dunno, now the workflow is like agent makes code changes, ruff complains, agent fixes complaints at the cost of code bloat, agent makes a PR, another agent reviews the PR, agent makes changes, PR is approved and merged. Nobody reads PRs anymore with the agentic development velocity.
I've never had discussions about code formatting in PRs, this seems like a made up problem or something that predates my career.
In my previous place, discussions on coding style were forbidden in PRs. It worked just fine.
Edit: one could also use single or double quotes in strings, and it didn't anger the grammar nazi bots as there were none.