If you do have AI write for you, I think it is useful to indicate what is going on by having a rule set up for it. That can at least prepare the reader for reading AI text.
I personally find it okay / convenient to have AI respond to PR review comments with respect to something being addressed or why it was not. That text is often pretty mechanical.
I've frequently seen tasks that it thinks will take weeks being done in under an hour. And it will often recommend doing X instead of Y because X requires so much extra work. Basically I just remind it that it is an LLM.
If it worries something is error prone, I ask it to write tools to verify it.
Yeah, forgot to mention that, but that's entirely correct. Modern BASIC variants (I assume) let you label lines so that GOTO and GOSUB can still be used. But with a few flow-control constructs (I don't know modern Basic but in the linked repo I saw a couple `while ... wend` blocks) the need for GOTO is much reduced, I'm sure. GOSUB, well, again I haven't checked. But if GOSUB is allowed to point to a string label rather than a line number then it just becomes a function call, and is still a useful construct. (GOTO only has utility in being able to do the equivalent of `break` or `continue` inside a loop).
I've done this manually by building a big feature branch and asking an LLM to extract out functionality for a portion of it.
For the former, it would seem to split based on frontend/backend, etc. rather than what semantically makes the most sense and for the latter it would include changes I don't want and forget some I do want. But I haven't tried this a lot.
The GP said more with LLMs than people - not no interactions at all with people and not preferring machines to people. I don't think it is that hard to spend more time talking with LLMs than people if you work in tech and I don't think that takes away from one's life meaningfulness.
Yes, this is called alienation of the work place and it has been discussed since the 1800s. Maybe tech workers will realize that their employers are literal enemies of humanity rather than their friends.
Employers want to mechanize humans and they'll force it even if it makes everyone miserable for their entire, short, lives.
One thing that is useful to remember is that if you ask AI for help on using some app, it will likely refer to the mobile UI instead of the web UI. I find it annoying that sometimes there are features that are only available in the mobile UI.
Might be date-related; all are from past 3 days
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