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Engineer and ai decided the third party api was "inconsistent" and "nondeterministic" so they wrote a script to hit it over and over and over hoping to "catch" any "missed" entries
collingreen on Hacker News
Thousands of lines and hours of wasted time
In the thread “Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Engineer and AI misinterpreted API behavior, ignoring required pagination cursor.
One of my engineers used ai yesterday to write a thing without having to "pore over the docs". Engineer and ai decided the third party api was "inconsistent" and "nondeterministic" so they wrote a script to hit it over and over and over hoping to "catch" any "missed" entries. Built a whole cache and mini db to track all the seen IDs as it hammers the api. …