Ask HN: Why can't AI fix all open source issues on GitHub?
9 points by coldtrait 2 weeks ago | 11 comments- malfist 2 weeks agoSame reason why that one manager who's always telling people how awesome AI coding is and how fast and effortless it makes development, isn't opening any pull requests.
AI isn't what it's hyped to be
- viraptor 2 weeks agoBefore you even get to abilities:
1. Not every issue is fixable
2. Not every issue is something the project wants to change
3. Not every issue is well enough defined to be sure when it's fixed
4. Not every issue can be fixed without access to the reporter's complete environment
Then you need to actually pay for the work...
- rsynnott 1 week agoBecause, well, have you _seen_ its attempts to do that? LLMs just are not very good at programming. Really. There's a lot of hype, and billions being spent in marketing to make you believe that they are, but when it comes right down to it they are not good.
- achempion 1 week agoThere are some ongoing experiments regarding this, this is one of them: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115762
- throwaway7679 2 weeks agoTo get AI to fix a specific issue, simply have a human fix it first.
If that doesn't sound very useful, well...
- blueflow 2 weeks agoWhy can't you?
( "I, Robot" reference)
- NetRunnerSu 2 weeks agoBecause freedom is a function of wallet balance —— who paying the bills? Project founder, or Github?
- mikewarot 2 weeks agoNot every issue should be fixed. It's well known that users don't actually know what they really want.
Think of AI as a Genie, and consider how well granting 3 wishes works out in most stories.
- 2 weeks ago
- owebmaster 1 week agoIt can if we let it - but it will create the same amount of bugs or more.
- incomingpain 2 weeks agoif github copilot were to crunch every issue and offer a patch, that's a ton of gpus and a ton of electricity to do it.
But i expect they offer it on ># stars repos at first to manage.
- _wire_ 1 week agoWhy can't AI deal with all these questions and issues on HN?!
It doesn't even need to directly address any of it, just lump the dupes other, bin the paywall references...
--Wait, why am I even making a list? The AI can do it!