alt Hacker NewsBecause they are swamped and want to automate some of the process.
The way I see it the devs that put that in place are saying, listen before even reading your contribution I am going to feed it to a LLM with these instructions and see what it spits out. Now I will extricate my self from being the LLM proxy so you deal with this output and when it's okay I will look at it.
Same as "listen bud until it passes linting I won't even look at it." Just a much more flexible and fuzzy linter.
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InsidiousWombat • today at 1:23 PM
If it was truly much more flexible the problem wouldn't be there because people wouldn't be swamped by LLM slop to sort thru
Yes that is obvious, but I still do not understand it, the same way I do not understand why someone would crunch and do drugs just to attempt to meet a deadline and then still don't, instead of going "this isn't working, we will stop and pivot".
It's just such an obviously terrible execution. Why would you throw it into production when doing literally anything else - and that includes just setting the whole server on fire - is less damaging.
(Not hyperbole. Loss of trust and loss of trust in ones own judgement is the highest and harshest price in this industry)