I promise this blog will have more than an engineer yelling at the clouds about LLM pain. I was actually working on a retrospective on X-Men Legends, or my experiences building an NES emulator in Rust. However slop PRs started hitting a codebase I maintain at work. And like any healthy individual I wish to commiserate about this with others on the internet. I’d like to think I have some ability for introspection. Is it me that’s the problem? Am I just not with it anymore? It’s one thing to see the spam come in and go “man this sucks”. But it’s another thing to have to explain to misguided individuals why their behavior is destructive. This is my attempt at delving into the “why”. Why do these slop PRs bother me so much? Why do they feel like such a drain?
  • aivoton@sopuli.xyz
    6 months

    With more and more places pushing LLM generated code I’m getting real review fatigue. Code reviews used to be very reasonable and you could be very mindful about other persons code. Now it’s starting to be just LLM generated code which makes reviewing tedious as you are reading the same sloppy stuff in hopes that you can build your mental model of the changes to codebase before new LLM slop bomb hits the PR queue.

    • Corngood@lemmy.ml
      6 months

      Surely we can come up with networks of trust for this sort of thing, so that you don’t have to deal with PRs from people with no references.

      • aivoton@sopuli.xyz
        6 months

        This works if you have the luxury to select the people whose PRs you review, but in a corporate environment you just don’t have that option. I would love to just reject obvious LLM code, but it’s not going to keep me employed. Instead I’m stuck at figuring out how to meaningfully review LLM changes and how to manage the mental model with these rapid changes.