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1. diggan+L1[view] [source] 2025-05-21 11:18:44
>>laiysb+(OP)
Interesting that every comment has "Help improve Copilot by leaving feedback using the or buttons" suffix, yet none of the comments received any feedback, either positive or negative.

> This seems like it's fixing the symptom rather than the underlying issue?

This is also my experience when you haven't setup a proper system prompt to address this for everything an LLM does. Funniest PRs are the ones that "resolves" test failures by removing/commenting out the test cases, or change the assertions. Googles and Microsofts models seems more likely to do this than OpenAIs and Anthropics models, I wonder if there is some difference in their internal processes that are leaking through here?

The same PR as the quote above continues with 3 more messages before the human seemingly gives up:

> please take a look

> Your new tests aren't being run because the new file wasn't added to the csproj

> Your added tests are failing.

I can't imagine how the people who have to deal with this are feeling. It's like you have a junior developer except they don't even read what you're telling them, and have 0 agency to understand what they're actually doing.

Another PR: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115732/files

How are people reviewing that? 90% of the page height is taken up by "Check failure", can hardly see the code/diff at all. And as a cherry on top, the unit test has a comment that say "Test expressions mentioned in the issue". This whole thing would be fucking hilarious if I didn't feel so bad for the humans who are on the other side of this.

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2. mrweas+ga[view] [source] 2025-05-21 12:32:11
>>diggan+L1
At least we can tell the junior developers to not submit a pull-request before they have the tests running locally.

At what point does the human developers just give up and close the PRs as "AI garbage". Keep the ones that works, then just junk the rest. I feel that at some point entertaining the machine becomes unbearable and people just stops doing it or rage close the PRs.

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3. pydry+rb[view] [source] 2025-05-21 12:41:33
>>mrweas+ga
When their performance reviews stop depending upon them not doing that.

Microsoft's stock price is dependent on them proving that this is a success.

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4. mrweas+ue[view] [source] 2025-05-21 13:07:24
>>pydry+rb
What happens when they can't prove that and development efficiency starts falling, because developers spend 50% of their time battling copilot?
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