alt Hacker News> The maintainer can then paste them in to an AI tool themselves and go back and forth faster than they could comment feedback to you and wait for changes.
My experience is that maintainers cannot do this. Or rather, that it is useless.
> The maintainer can then paste them in to an AI tool themselves and go back and forth faster than they could comment feedback to you and wait for changes.
My experience is that maintainers cannot do this. Or rather, that it is useless.
I think we need to talk about the root issues then.
At “work”, non-open source, I see maintainers addressing usability issues they never would have touched before. I write the issue, the LLM does the rest.
In fact, last time I included a PR to fix some trivia, the AI said “let’s fix the root issue instead”, and did that. This was astounding to me. That team used to do nothing in the face of complaints / small bug reports. It used to be that without a PR you were ignored.
So what do you think is going on behind the experience with the maintainers? They don’t use AI? Or they are incompetent? Or…?