>Maybe it might be easier to understand if I was a really terrible engineer.
Yes yes I'm sure Jarred is a really terrible engineer. Yawn.
>AI then fixing it by adding another 250k LoC, is not going to convince me, a competent maintainer of a major Js runtime with years of contributions, plenty of downstream dependents, and an understanding of the AI zeitgeist... to merge it all in by the next Wednesday
But you're not any of these things, are you? Regardless, of course you're free to not make the same decision. Doesn't really change the point.
The fact so many people can tell these actions don't meet the bar of a competent maintainer is... not a flex.
And I didn't realize I was talking to a cheerleader the whole time: I guess I'll defer to you on if Jarred is consistently a terrible engineer, or is just being a terrible engineer this one time.
Yes yes I'm sure Jarred is a really terrible engineer. Yawn.
>AI then fixing it by adding another 250k LoC, is not going to convince me, a competent maintainer of a major Js runtime with years of contributions, plenty of downstream dependents, and an understanding of the AI zeitgeist... to merge it all in by the next Wednesday
But you're not any of these things, are you? Regardless, of course you're free to not make the same decision. Doesn't really change the point.