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I deal with something similar on about a monthly basis on a couple of projects I work on, where people will just submit a 5-digit-lines PR that's entirely AI slop and often a slightly smug "there that fixes all the problems" attitude to it.

No, it doesn't, and given that I've been a Python developer (albeit not a very good one) for 25 years now - this doesn't mean that I'm some great Python wizard, just that I know what it's pretty much supposed to look like - there's shit in there I can't even begin to decode. Why are so much of the lines of the PR just grafting in huge jumbled strings of characters? It looks like some blindingly obvious attempt to disguise a backdoor.

"Oh I don't understand all of it, I just got <AI of the Week> to do it"

Yeah. Take it out of here. Do you like having knees? Well don't bring anything like this back.





> I deal with something similar on about a monthly basis on a couple of projects I work on

I am sorry & thank you for your service guarding us from AI slop and backdoors




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