I’ve been thinking: what if hiring was as simple as submitting a pull request?<p>Instead of resumes and endless interviews, candidates could fork a company’s repo (or a prepared test repo), fix a bug or add a small feature, and get hired based on real contribution.<p>Has anyone tried this? What are ...
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I’ve been thinking: what if hiring was as simple as submitting a pull request?<p>Instead of resumes and endless interviews, candidates could fork a company’s repo (or a prepared test repo), fix a bug or add a small feature, and get hired based on real contribution.<p>Has anyone tried this? What are ...
I'm frequently working on the go where I'll only have 1-2 bars of 4G/5G and the web UI for BitBucket is <i>extremely</i> slow.<p>I'm looking for a desktop app that would let me make and manage Pull Requests in Bitbucket from my local machine, without my web browser. Preferably fr...
My coworker regularly puts up 1500+ line pull requests that are in a single diff. I find it nearly impossible to give good feedback to this many changes at one once - and to go through it thoroughly can take me well over an hour (so I usually am not thorough.)<p>Am I wrong to balk at this? Should I ...
It feels like maybe having a few different LLMS act as agents, you could get fairly far in writing some software... especially if guided by a human PM, right?
Hello, I'm a computer enthusiast who recently started coding as a hobby.<p>Sometime mid 2024, I opened my first pull request to a popular
open source project that I use daily.
The patch adds a small feature to the software, which is
rather trivial (~200 loc, and does not affect other features)....
Do you share PR links on Slack? Or a dedicated channel? Or DM?<p>Is there a tool?<p>Currently, I am looking for a way to not keep PRs open for a long time without having to tag the reviewer in person. Please no AI tools.
If you look at this person’s profile, you’ll see they open multiple pull requests on random repositories, in various programming languages.<p>For example, they submitted two completely nonsensical and non-functional pull requests to one of my projects, and it’s extremely annoying.<p>How is GitHub pl...
I am an engineer and I have a two member engineering team (1 front-end dev and 1 part-time freelancer). We use Cursor and Claude Code heavily to build. Over the past 6 months, we have built 6+ apps and noticed a pattern that AI is great at small, specific coding tasks but struggles with larger ones....
So güd.