Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to...

I recovered the joy of programming. And I didn’t look back. I won’t pretend that number of lines of code or PRs is a valid metric, especially when AI can be as verbose as it wants to win on every metric. But I can say that I am pushing significant changes every day, getting PRs merged, and at the end of the day, getting the work done. And for that reason, I’m not scared of being fired. Plus, I’m keeping my brain functions intact.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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    6 days ago

    The agent would do things like create a new type definition in the same file as the function that used it. Except we already had a type definition in the types file so that it could be imported into different parts of the code.

    Ouch. In C++, this violates the “One Definition Rule”, which will in this case likely not cause any compiler warning, and can cause extremely hard-to-find Undefined Behaviour bugs if, for example, the layout for classes or structs is different between definitions.

    (And the latter can of course easily happen if you later edit or extend one definition without being aware of redundant other definitions.)