Readit NewsI’m all for benchmarking and showing that your product is better from a technical standpoint. But at least for me, this is not the way.
But at the same time, me as a customer of Github, would prefer if Github made it harder for vendors like CodeRabbit to make misstakes like this.
If you have an app with access to more than 1M repos, it would make sense for Github to require a short lived token to access a given repository and only allow the "master" private key to update the app info or whatever.
And/or maybe design mechanisms that only allow minting of these tokens for the repo whenever a certain action is run (i.e not arbitrarily).
But at the end of the day, yes, it's impossible for Github to both allow users to grant full access to whatever app and at the same time ensure stuff like this doesn't happen.
Simple answer: they're cutting corners -- increasing shelf life, decreasing production costs, and overall increasing profits, like many of the big food corporations operating today.
EDIT: Tried again and now I see there is a highlight, but it's pretty hard to see a in a busy tank, the color contrast is not very high
They used to be a crown-jewel of US tech. But it seems like every time I read the news, they are announcing a delay or shutting down some product.
If TSMC over invests in US factories then they could be taken over under imminent domain if Taiwan was no longer independent. So they have to keep a large portion of manufacturing domestic to Taiwan for lessened geopolitical risk.
My current day to day problem is that, the PRs don't come with that disclaimer; The authors won't even admit if asked directly. Yet I know my comments on the PR will be fed to the cursor so it makes more crappy edits, and I'll be expecting an entirely different PR in 10 minutes to review from scratch without even addressing the main concern. I wish I could at least talk to the AI directly.
(If you're wondering, it's unfortunately not in my power right now to ignore or close the PRs).
Another perspective I’ve found to resonate with people is to remind them — if you’re not reviewing the code or passing it through any type of human reasoning to determine its fit to solving the business problem - what value are you adding at all? If you just copy pasta through AI, you might as well not even be in the loop, because it’d be faster for me to do it directly, and have the context of the prompts as well.
This is a step change in our industry and an opportunity to mentor people who are misusing it. If they don’t take it, there are plenty of people who will. I have a feeling that AI will actually separate the wheat from the chaff, because right now, people can hide a lack of understanding and effort because the output speed is so low for everyone. Once those who have no issue with applying critical thinking and debugging to the problem and work well with the business start to leverage AI, it’ll become very obvious who’s left behind.
They didn't have the app ecosystem - no surprise. However the only way to get that ecosystem is years of investment. The Windows phone failed a couple years latter for similar reasons - nice device (or so I'm told), but it wasn't out long enough to get a lot of apps before Microsoft gave up on it.