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0 pointsnameless9122y ago0 comments

90% of the comments in the codebase on the project I work on now are links to JIRA tickets and incident reports. AI can't and won't ever do that, and those comments are absolute gold. You can immediately read a seemingly less than optimal or overly defensive snippet of code, wonder "what moron wrote this!?" and then immediately read the referenced ticket and realize that it's "overly defensive" due to a caller that abused our API and caused it to fall over.

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welshwelsh2y ago

You don't think it's possible to integrate an AI system with JIRA so that it can link to the relevant tickets?

netsharc2y ago

There are probably already IDE integrations so you can make Jira-like strings clickable to the appropriate task, or show a tooltip to hover.

It doesn't even need fucking AI, just regexp and just a configuration, e.g. if your Jira project is called NAI, any word that has the format NAI-[0-9]* should be such a link to https://jira.lookatmenotusingfancyai.com/task/NAI-xx

Edit: then again, Jira tasks can end up being a place for long discussions. If the AI can summarize the end-result/the decisions taken, it would be useful.. but also as a Jira plugin.

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