alt Hacker NewsI think if the submitter can answer questions about the code, and exhibit understanding for every line then it should be indistinguishable. But I don't maintain any busy projects.
The moderating should focus on good user participation, and a reputation to give old users leeway. I'd be as specific as requesting new users to respond as succinctly as possible to avoid AI ranting
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I am not a major contributor or anything but I have a hobby of watching issues and pull requests for "coding drama". These AI policies seems to be targeting the average AI PR, which is basically one or two shot implementations. In some projects which are more AI positive (like AI agent projects) I have seen people's code reviews are also AI. It just looks like one AI config checking the output for other AI configs. In my own contributions I have at least had a couple of instances where I didn't know I was talking to an LLM or a person.
Of course as people understand how to use these tools their quality of output may increase. But what will also improve is our own processes around handling AI work.
Yeah, there's quite a range between an experienced dev who reviews and understands everything the LLM generates and a coder-clown who blindly trusts it.
One of the big AI companies recently presented to our company. They sent one of the clowns. "I don't even review the code because it would slow me down. Human code also has bugs, so why bother?" These people scare me, but they're also the first type of coder who will be unemployed by AI, so at least we won't have to put up with them for much longer.
Software is a big umbrella. There are people who vomit out code because they can just push another update later in the day and will keep doing that until the bug reports stop. They are often gleefully ignorant that much of software is not designed that way, and that the reason any of their code works is that it is built on software very much not designed that way.