Mastodawn

Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590

That OCaml PR is textbook open source in the era of vibe coding...

It's got everything:

- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it.
- Copyright laundering.
- "I just wanted to get it done!" versus maintainers who know they have to live with code contributions for years.
- Zero-effort pasting LLM output as reply to real people's thoughtful questions. (At least the author acknowledged what they were doing that time.)
- It doesn't matter that it's hard to review because "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works."
- "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

If this is our new world then it's going to turbocharge maintainer burnout.

(If you don't want to read a quite long often depressing thread, would still recommend reading this well reasoned comment by one of the maintainers:
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-3556593972 )

Daphne Preston-Kendal (@[email protected])

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

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Stewart Russell Nov 22

@projectgus holy shit! he just keeps digging! I lost it when he got to the "Here's the AI-generated copyright review", which added words, but no value.

I liked gasche's super-thoughtful comments, esp. the one with "The fact that you were able to generate large amount of code that passes test is interesting, but that's only 20% of the work, the other 80% are to get the feature discussed, reviewed and integrated" — https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-3556593972

DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml

DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

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Harald Nov 22

@scruss @projectgus

Wow.

"AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works. Please challenge me on this."

This is like saying: "I shat on your carpet and it smells really good. Please challenge me on this."

No idea why they have not just blocked the user.🤷

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SnowFox

@HaraldKi @scruss @projectgus "I'm right. Debate me."

(Or, pretty much, the original context of the "change my mind" meme.)