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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 days ago

We've had a very recent uptick in engineers submitting PRs of hundreds of lines across multiple files, for Jira tickets that only asked for a one-line change. The engineers involved have been using AI assistants for nearly two years now, but there seems to have been a change in the last month or so in how aggressive the new models are at changing code.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 57 points 3 days ago

Almost as if they're paid by the token...

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

This is exacty what I'm seeing. I've been using it in a DevOps capacity to act on runbooks. The same wrote task 3 months ago now consume 4-5x more tokens. this correlated closely with when anthropic released auto mode.

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

Use ponytail to keep 50 line changes to 1 line, and use rtk to save tokens.

Also use an assistant to checkout someone else's diff and review it in chunks

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