alt Hacker News> You have to constantly fight so hard to not get this.
By “fight so hard” you mean “do a bit of basic editing before publishing the text”?
You wouldn't have thrown a junior's text straight at end users without any review in the past (at least I hope not, though obviously some teams actually were and still are that lax), why do you expect to get away with skipping the review/edit step with your clockwork colleague?
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Okay yes "fight so hard" might have been a bit stronger sorry for that. But it was more in line with "this has become so annoying recently" rightly so because yes you do need to remove the cruft that has nothing to be here and I don't remember being such as issue 6 months ago. The other part of it is to regularly remind colleagues of this rising issue because as I said, even experienced people tend not to care anymore, and this is saddening me.
And while in 2025 I considered AI coding agent in the realm of junior devs, we have been way way past that since early 2026 honestly.
The people who don't care can output slop orders of magnitude faster than those that do.
Because we expect a junior colleague to learn from feedback and not have to fix the same problems in their output year after year.