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guitarlimeo • today at 4:02 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

This could be a good article but the example doesn't work?

"The CI tool was flagging an issue, perhaps correct, perhaps incorrect. But this is a real system so I had to dive in."

By diving in he ultimately just uses the AI to fix the problem:

"So I told Codex to make SonarQube happy, which it did by refactoring and splitting things up into 10 files".

Why isn't there a "shallowbot", or some CI configuration that tries to fix CI mistakes once before humans dive in? Plus it's not that deep, it's just shit code that was fixable with a "make sonarqube happy" prompt. I think the author is ashamed to admit that he's as generalist as everyone else now.