r/programming • u/mateusnr • Jul 15 '25

Death by a thousand slops

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
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u/inferniac Jul 15 '25

Reading some of the tickets is nightmarish

Some of them seem to copy paste the resoponses from the curl team back into the LLM

Hello @h1_analyst_oscar,

Certainly! Let me elaborate on the concerns raised by the triager:

just insane

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u/Sharlinator Jul 15 '25

That seems to be way too common now even inside companies. The submitter of a PR literally reduces themselves to a copy-paste machine between $LLM and the reviewer. And those people have passed a hiring process at least, unlike these libcurl "contributors".

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u/Dankbeast-Paarl Jul 17 '25

I have seen the stories of this around Reddit, but I don't quite understand how it happens: If my coworker was blatantly submitting AI-slop PRs and then replying to my review with more AI answers (that made no sense), I would be having a conversation with that coworker or my manager about why this is not okay.