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ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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According to the release:

Adds experimental PostgreSQL support

The code was written by Cursor and Claude

14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed

reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks

This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.

Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?

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[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Was this written with genAI? Even the TLDR is padded fluff of common talking points

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 months ago

Also I can't really answer the question if it's bad or not what happens to ntfy.sh since it really depends on how the maintainer is using Ai here. Whether he did test the code, and read all the generated code.

Ai in itself isn't the problem here.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm halfway with you, and halfway just considering that people think it's relevant to include a tl;dr in a barely three paragraph comment. The feeling with tl;dr for me is a summary similar to a closing paragraph, and if anyone thinks that one sentence ("Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development.") is somehow worthy of being summarized as if the point was proven ("Ai can be very powerful in the right hands")... well, it sounds like shit because it is shit. Maybe it's ai, maybe it's just a really rushed dude making a throwaway comment in the fediverse, and maybe it's just a person who is confident enough in their mind that they forget they haven't made an actually decent argument outside of their past, and concluding as if they brought that past argument forth here is eye-raising.

Considering he's on his own instance... I'm going to bet the context is somewhere between throwaway comment and invoking past assertions without citing them.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 4 months ago

You can run my text through Ai checkers if you wish. But it's not Ai generated.

I'm not just on my own instance. I'm the creator of the software: Mbin. Previously known as kbin.

People need tldr today, due to TikTok. 😅

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 months ago

Haha. I'm not a native English speaker. But it's not Ai generated.

I try to keep it common for general people to understand it. If you have follow up questions shoot. I have 25+ years of software engineering experience.

But my point is that developers can use Ai, Ai tools become much better for coding, as long as the developer still understands the code. Since some developers don't even bother looking at the code anymore...