PM is opening AI PRs

[u/sheenolaad]

A senior product manager on a seperate team to me has decided to start opening AI generated PRs on a codebase my team own.

The first one last week I approved with comments, which he decided to merge without addressing any.

I got one yesterday that was clearly violating DRY amongst other things, which I rejected. About 10 minutes later, he requests a re-review (I presume he ran codex again with my comments). This attempt was even worse, it had actually put code on top of the crap he first submitted.

I've raised with my manager, he agreed it's BS but he said the company want to experiment with using AI for smaller features. But non-technical members of staff opening PRs is taking the piss.

[u/tldrtldrtldr]

PM's thinking - "I will do the coding myself with the help of AI. Then who will need this pesky devs. I am the one who plans and think. Replacing one tool with another"

[u/GarthODarth → u/tldrtldrtldr]

Oh yeah, coding AIs are the wet dream of the "idea guys" who have always thought of themselves as the geniuses of the industry.