I've seen the exact same in my reviews of some PRs on my team. The one with the static array and tests of presence/absence in this array is often appearing for some reason.
The most insulting: I once commented on the review that the test wasn't testing anything, an my colleague promptly launched his skill on my review and let claude remove the test. He didn't even read my comment.
Our hierarchy pushes for unrestricted AI use; now I just stop reading and refuse to review that kind of shit.
How can you claim that this is an experiment when you deploy it everywhere all at once, and have semi-autonomous, paying versions of it (Muse, https://dev.meta.ai/) in the hands of 1000s of people?
I'm trying to understand why the C suite is reaching for AI. I mean, what is driving them to force people to use it so much ?
Is it fear of the business being copied elsewhere?
Is it because monetary incentives to lessen the workforce?
Is it just all rich people's clubs laundering the same idea that AI will solve their problems, and the Cxx come back from their retreats and make it their stance that all company should use AI because muy buddy at the golf course said it?
Is it the promise of x10 the productivity?
My company has been holding on raises for a few years, but it's open bar on AI usage. And I feel it in the reviews: some are expedited without even a human in the loop. It also outs people that have no care for the result, they push things they don't even understand. The C suite has words like "every developer pushing a MR should be able to explain why and how", and in the same week, push for full automation of the Spec -> Implementation -> MR -> Review flow.
AI is capable of generating things that are nearly indiscernible from reality, with almost any input, be it adversarial or other. Photoshop at least involved some manual trimming and lengthy process that couldn't be applied to "literally anything you can thing of".
I'd rather have the laywork already there to punish sensationalist publishers that abuse AI to forge alternate realities than nothing.
Manipulating information is going to be the plague of the post-GPT/post-Midjourney era. We are entering an era where trust if going to be hard earned, and I don't know how you can trust for-profit or politician/billionaire owned companies anymore. What prevents WaPo from manufacturing information?
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