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Ask HN: Why can't AI fix all open source issues on GitHub?(undefined)
8 points by coldtrait a day ago | 11 comments
  • malfista day ago

    Same 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

  • viraptora day ago

    Before 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...

  • achempion6 hours ago

    There are some ongoing experiments regarding this, this is one of them: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115762

  • rsynnott9 hours ago

    Because, 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.

  • throwaway7679a day ago

    To get AI to fix a specific issue, simply have a human fix it first.

    If that doesn't sound very useful, well...

  • blueflowa day ago

    Why can't you?

    ( "I, Robot" reference)

  • mikewarota day ago

    Not 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.

  • NetRunnerSua day ago

    Because freedom is a function of wallet balance —— who paying the bills? Project founder, or Github?

    https://dmf-archive.github.io/

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  • _wire_a day ago

    Why 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!

  • incomingpaina day ago

    if 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.