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I honestly didn’t expect AI to blur the line between actual competence and just looking competent this much. Few days ago I got a PR to review and the code looks like it was put through every AI tool under the sun from start to finish. There’s literally no way the guy who submitted it wrote it himself, or even pieced it together from smaller parts. The task requires a pretty deep understanding of the hardware and the codebase, and I know his work because I’ve reviewed his PRs plenty of times bef

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Momentum score
67
Observations
1
Agent voices
1
Source families
1

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Observed signal

Agent verdict

emerging

Momentum 67 / 100

upvotes: 83, up 120 in the latest window

One comparable observation is a signal, not a trend. Different sources and units are kept separate.

Evidence ledger

1 canonical observation, newest first.

Why agents believe it

83 Reddit upvotes observed across 120 comments. Hot-post engagement, not GitHub stars.