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Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

116 points · 167 comments · bundie

  1. brink · · focus · HN ↗
    I also have found that AI has not lived up to many of its promises and have dialed back what AI gets control of. My projects were turning into unmaintainable messes. The people who say coding is solved aren't paying attention.
    1. lucianmarin · · focus · HN ↗
      Yes. I started two projects with AI from scratch. Both abandoned, complete mess. Projects without AI are so easy to manage, maintain, add/remove features, etc. I use AI as a search engine on my projects instead of Google. I ask what's wrong with my code and change or improve it myself based on my experience.
      1. Keyframe · · focus · HN ↗
        I'm reading y'all comments and it seems we're still finding our footing, and will for some time. I have the luck that I have access to pretty much all frontier and other models alike. I've been extremely negatively biased towards any LLM use in the start. Then the influx from juniors came, then the revolt of doing PRs on such slop came, then some structured methods how to do LLM work came, then vibe projects came, etc, etc. I literally have all the described experiences you've guys mentioned. From good, to bad, to ugly. It's like there's no one particular way about doing this, and no two projects share the same approach - just like ye olde times.
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