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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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[–] erikjan@fosstodon.org 119 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@ueiqkkwhuwjw just this quote at the start of the release notes

> 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request

This is already a major red flag even without the ai stuff right? Can't believe anyone would flaunt that like this.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The "single pull request" is a merge release from 79 separate commits. It's the sum of all work, it doesn't mean all of it was changed in one go.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter, it's entirely too much for one PR

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why? What difference does it make if he packages these commits in 1 or 10 PRs?

Keep in mind this is a single maintainer project, there are no PR reviews. He could be just pushing straight to the branch anyway with no PR at all.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, he could also not use git and just write some random bullshit directly on prod while blindfolded and blackout drunk.
However if you want a good product and good code you need to follow best practices, and those include meaningful and small PRs that you can easily review, check, debug, and revert if necessary.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You should tell that to Linus Torvalds, he's developing the Linux kernel without using GitHub at all. I'm sure he will appreciate being told git is insuffient to develop a good product and write good code, the best practice is to use a Microsoft service in a particular way and nothing else can work.

Tell me, when I work on a project alone, who am I exactly requesting to pull my code and why do I need to use a feature of some git hosting website instead of reviewing, checking, debugging, merging, and reverting if necessary my change locally and using my CI/CD?