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  • Open source maintainers don’t want to hear this, but this is the way people code now, and you need to do your part to prepare your repo for AI coding assistants.

    1. Plenty of people still code without LLMs
    2. If someone can’t submit a PR without it being obvious they used an LLM (regardless of if they actually do) they shouldn’t be submitting a PR. This is a quality issue rather than prejudice against tools.
    3. This bubble is going to pop, the SaaS based assistants are going to be either gone or significantly more expensive. Whether these problematic “contributors” will still be around will be interesting to see.
    4. How fucking dare this person insist open source maintainers do all this work they’re not interested in to cater to low quality “contributors”.



  • I always wonder this as well… I will use tools to help me write some repetitive stuff periodically. Most often I’ll use a regex replace but occasionally I’ll write a little perl or sed or awk. I suspect the boilerplate these people talk about are either this it setting up projects, which I think there are also better tools for








  • The problem is that people recommend clean code to junior developers all the time. Clean Code is full of terrible advice and heuristics over critical thinking throughout, and is usually foisted on burgeoning juniors when they don’t know any better.

    In other words, you’re correct that adherents of clean code are thinking like junior developers, because that’s what clean code tells you to do.