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Hubris? The offshore team submitting 2000 line nonsense PRs from AI is reality.

We’re living it. We see it every day. The business leaders cannot be convinced that this isn’t making less skilled developers more productive.

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Worth noting that there are business leaders who see high LOC and number of commits as metrics of good programmers. To them the 2000 LOC commits from offshore are proof that it's working. Sadly the proof that it's not will show in their sales and customer satisfaction if they keep producing their product long enough. For too long the business model in tech has been to get bought out so this doesn't often matter to business.

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