AI-generated comments and PR overviews are draining engineers' joy, dev says
MarkNeumannnn · x · 2026-09-21
An engineer shared that reading AI-generated slop — especially AI-written PR overviews — has caused a permanent decrease in his enjoyment of day-to-day technical engineering and management work. Notably, the reaction isn't universal: some people love it. He also asked whether others have found effective mitigations, social or technical.
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