alt.hn

3/31/2026 at 11:12:34 AM

Prediction: The Shopify CEO's Pull Request Will Never Be Merged nor Closed

 https://joshmoody.org/blog/shopify-ceo-autoresearch-pr/

by birdculture

3/31/2026 at 1:40:38 PM

Yeah -- 93 commits in there. Not to say AI can't make an improvement in a domain like this, but it's definitely not a YOLO situation right now. I use AI code heavily at work and it's quite prolific but also often creates bugs of various severities.

by zug_zug

3/31/2026 at 2:44:07 PM

Having done a lot of optimizer work, there's definitely a category of things that I've avoided producing preliminary numbers for because I don't see how to get robust production code out of it. A lot of people are going to have to learn (and develop social scripts to explain) that not every 50% speedup is a good idea to pursue.

by SpicyLemonZest

3/31/2026 at 6:02:25 PM

Liquid (Ruby) has been a bit of a backwater repo for a long, long time now. I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other template engines (including one I wrote which is a superset of ERB with Liquid-like features called Serbea).

Turning a questionable project into a vibe-coded slop fest doesn't surprise me tbh. Folks, unless you neeeeeeed to use Liquid, uh, don't. (Unless you're using another language port of Liquid, in which case maybe it's still fine.)

by jaredcwhite

3/31/2026 at 12:37:46 PM

This article has a weird tone. It directly criticizes the results of this AI-driven coding effort (which the author admits is of bad quality), while at the same time it tries to reassure the reader that they're not here to criticize the author of the PR.

Only of these can be true at the same time.

by osmsucks

3/31/2026 at 12:45:14 PM

not if they are different authors; AI wrote the code and the human the PR. These used to implicitly be the same person but this is something important we have lost. You've now got a smart, former developer in a position of power vouching for code they essentially didn't write.

by skeeter2020

3/31/2026 at 6:02:23 PM

So you're saying that the slop thus produced is not the responsibility of the human authoring the PR? I would assume it is, regardless of how it was produced.

by osmsucks

3/31/2026 at 1:45:38 PM

Instead of writing a blog post he could have written agentic instructions to fix the mr and prove it works and make another mr and send it back to the ceo

by whattheheckheck

3/31/2026 at 3:32:31 PM

Why? Tobi doesn't need help wrangling his own bullshit.

by nozzlegear