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@seav@en.osm.town
2025-11-25 00:16:00

I saw this AI/LLM-assisted GitHub pull request on the #OCaml project and the chutzpah of the submitter is on a whole different level.
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14
He also submi…

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...

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-22 19:50:50

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
github…

quoted text: "Your approach of submitting very large relatively-low-effort PRs creates a very real risk of bringing the Pull-Request system to a halt, especially given that, in my personal experience, reviewing AI-written code is more taxing that reviewing human-written code." response: "I do not intend to submit any more PRs of this kind. This was a proof of concept and an attempt to push AI as far as it would go. I believe that it has succeeded brilliantly! Also, *I would not call this a l…
quoted text: "we have in fact known this for years and the difficulty is to find a way to do it that maintainers agree comes at a reasonable maintenance burden)." response: "I’m not a compiler developer by trade, although I’ve done all sorts of development over the years. I’m approaching this strictly as a user, perhaps a power user. I used to look at my needs and wants, and sulk because they were not addressed. Damn, I can’t debug OCaml on my Mac because there’s no DWARF info. Oh, wow…
quoted text: "I think that it is a case of different-to-the-point-of-being-incompatible software development processes (rather than a given process being fundamentally right or wrong), and I think that the uncertainty here is in part caused by our lack, on the upstream side, of a clear policy for what we expect regarding AI-assisted code contributions." response: "That is something I’ve been pondering myself. I tried approaching several projects this way, trying to take care of things that b…