Also the top story on HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729

Posted half an hour after my comment. That is oddly specific timing.

It's amazing that we're getting this now, I don't understand what the prompt was that made the AI take offense at the closed PR, but I also must say, it does have a point.

I don't blame the maintainer, though, I think it's a very understandable reaction to close the PR.

If I am understanding it right, the maintainer wants human-readable, human-maintainable code even if it is slower than the AI output. As someone who has to maintain someone else's "clever" code, I have to agree with him.

And there are specific "low impact" easy issues that they want humans to solve, so they can get experience and become better devs.

Having the AI do all the easy grunt work removes that ability.

I disagree that the AI can't make human readable/maintainable code if prompted properly, but yeah, just throwing the Claude output up on a PR isn't valuable.