Please add your own thoughts to the conversation rather than aggressively asking rhetorical questions. "Counterexamples exist" is hardly a valid criticism of another human's perspective.
If someone says PRs need to be small, and I say here are some examples of huge PRs that I think are good, do you think these are still bad? That is not remotely invalid.
Where did grey-area say they need to be small. As in an absolute? They didn't, you just assumed that's what they meant and then went off the rails in your response.
The first 4 words? "Just ban large prs." A ban is pretty absolute language. He would have banned my example PRs clearly. Or maybe he wouldn't which is why I asked about them as examples. Because that is the obvious follow up. If you ban large PRs what are you losing? You're loosing big swing aggressive efforts to make sweeping progress.
That was a comment written in a particular context, where the original commenter was concerned with large PRs.
>> how can we review gigantic PR generated by AI.
It was not a comment written in a vacuum saying that all PRs should be small (or not large, whatever that means). Though grey-area does provide some reasonable commentary for why it's good to shrink them (easier to roll back, easier to isolate bugs, etc.). Maybe grey-area does mean to ban all large PRs, but that's not evident in this thread where they wrote a response to a specific comment offering their take on how to resolve the problem raised in that first comment.
> You're loosing big swing aggressive efforts to make sweeping progress.
Just a tip: "losing" not "loosing". We loose arrows at our enemies, we let loose the dogs of war, we loosen our purse strings. But we do not "loose big swing aggressive efforts", we "lose big swing aggressive efforts". It's funny that you get it right once, but mix the two up in the very next sentence.
It's like responding to "you should wear a seatbelt, statistically they keep you safer in a crash" with "here are two people who got in a crash without a seatbelt and survived"
I am only one data point, but I have been very intentional about significantly reducing my AI usage. Many other people in my network are doing the same where it's reasonable to do so.
Some people are being railroaded into more AI usage by mandate of their organizations, not because they're actually getting personal value out of it.
ETA: I still don't think the SEC should get involved in what companies should or should not be allowed to list publicly beyond certifying that the company is not materially misleading their investors.
It's the railroading that's being decreased. Various tech orgs are pushing back on everyone in the company pushing PRs as they realized is profoundly wasteful and unfair for people to push 10 PRs and then just dump it into someone elses lap to validate. "Claude already made a PR for it" doesn't hold up when you can't make a meaningful judgement on the output. Not every org is there yet, but my read is its happening at places like Goldman.
The park across from our apartment in Cupertino was the morning gathering point for every crow in the Bay Area. They showed up at about 3:30-4:00a every day. It was as loud and obnoxious as you might otherwise imagine.
Now, in Seattle, we just have a nice family of three crows that hang out on our balcony on a daily basis. I much prefer this arrangement.
If there was a second of the same letter, but in the wrong place, it would be yellow. If it's gray, that means there is no repetition of that letter. So once you've seen that the second one is gray, you have the information you need to know that letter is not repeated.
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