[HN Gopher] Robb Oat is a robot software engineer
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       Robb Oat is a robot software engineer
        
       Author : the_mitsuhiko
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2022-11-01 12:04 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (robboat.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (robboat.com)
        
       | the_mitsuhiko wrote:
       | It's built by Chad Whitacre and I find it highly amusing. It
       | basically listens on GitHub issues in a repo and tries it's best
       | to address them.
       | 
       | Here an example issue: https://github.com/robb-
       | oat/server/issues/7
        
       | ctoth wrote:
       | Now add JIRA integration and sell the Enterprise version and we
       | can all go home.
        
         | bergenty wrote:
         | Job opening: Professional JIRA ticket writer wanted
        
           | gillesjacobs wrote:
           | Prompt "engineering" is definitely going to be in some job
           | descriptions soon.
        
       | eddsh1994 wrote:
       | Please make the password field plaintext
        
       | kevmo314 wrote:
       | It would be cool if it wasn't necessary to link the relevant
       | line. That would enable non coders to create changes.
        
         | ctoth wrote:
         | I wonder if you could use a vector similarity search to find a
         | specific implementation in code based on a feature description.
         | I first thought you would need a language model with a large-
         | enough context window to digest the whole codebase, but after
         | thinking about it a bit longer it seems like the right way to
         | do this would be similarity search. Wonder if it would work at
         | all.
        
       | the_mitsuhiko wrote:
       | What's going on here? I submitted this post a few days ago and I
       | also wrote my comment
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420082) at that point. I
       | have a web archive to point it to:
       | http://web.archive.org/web/20221101130830/https://news.ycomb...
       | 
       | Yet this post is currently on the front page and the comment I
       | wrote claims to be from an hour ago?
        
         | metadat wrote:
         | This frequently happens with my submissions - tinder doesn't
         | always catch fire the first time around. Probably not worth
         | complaining about.
         | 
         | To reframe it: Are you pleased you were able to accurately
         | predict something that ended up being of interest to a great
         | many people? You deserve to feel good about this! In the end,
         | the thing got shared as intended.
         | 
         | At least, this is what I tell myself ;)
         | 
         | HN points are probably the most worthless form of currency,
         | except for maybe crypto.
        
         | imran-iq wrote:
         | Probably ended in the second chance pool:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
        
         | [deleted]
        
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