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>>pranav+(OP)
Seems like reading the code is now the real work. AI writes PRs instantly but reviewing them still takes time. Everything flipped. Expect more projects to follow - maintainers can just use ai themselves without needing external contributions.

>>sbonda+p5
Understanding (not necessarily reading) always was the real work. AI makes people less productive because it's speeding up the thing that wasn't hard (generating code), while generating additional burden on the thing that was hard (understanding the code).

>>bigstr+ci
> Understanding (not necessarily reading) always was the real work.

Great comment. Understanding is mis-"understood" by almost everyone. :)

Understanding a thing equates to building a causal model of the thing. And I still do not see AI as having a causal model of my code even though I use it every day. Seen differently, code is a proof of some statement, and verifying the correctness of a proof is what a code-review is.

There is an analogue to Brandolini's bullshit asymmetry principle here. Understanding code is 10 times harder than reading code.