Observe the following discussion thread. Someone posted an announcement113807>
about reworking the Asterisk test suite with the help of AI; the first response is mine.
Then, a few hours later, the second response appeared.
<https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/
Thoughts?
By the way, that second respondent?s posting history is hidden for some reason, while mine is not.
On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 06:45:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
Observe the following discussion thread. Someone posted an113807>
announcement about reworking the Asterisk test suite with the help
of AI; the first response is mine.
Then, a few hours later, the second response appeared.
<https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/
Thoughts?
By the way, that second respondent?s posting history is hidden for
some reason, while mine is not.
Thats odd, I only see your response. Not this mythical 2nd one you
speak of?
By the way, that second respondent?s posting history is hidden for
some reason, while mine is not.
Thats odd, I only see your response. Not this mythical 2nd one you
speak of?
Lawrence is usually trolling, so lack of a mythical 2nd response would
be very much in keeping with his normal trolling.
On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 06:45:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D???Oliveiro wrote:
Observe the following discussion thread. Someone posted an announcement113807>
about reworking the Asterisk test suite with the help of AI; the first
response is mine.
Then, a few hours later, the second response appeared.
<https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/
Thoughts?
By the way, that second respondent???s posting history is hidden for some
reason, while mine is not.
Thats odd, I only see your response. Not this mythical 2nd one you speak
of?
I saw the response - it was not mythical. It certainly looked weird,
and plagarising.
On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:34:07 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
I saw the response - it was not mythical. It certainly looked weird,
and plagarising.
Here???s a copy from my email notification:
I had a quick look through this commit and noticed a couple of
small things that might be worth considering.First, there are a
few `asyncio.ensure_future()` calls where the returned task isn???t
stored anywhere.From the docs, it looks like keeping a reference
to the task is recommended so it doesn???t get garbage-collected
while still running. `asyncio.create_task()`might be a better fit
here, or a `TaskGroup` could help manage the references
automatically.
Also noticed `_connect_async()` could be written a little more
cleanly by using an `else` block after the exception handling.
That keeps the successful connection path separate from the retry
case and makes the flow a bit easier to follow.
One other minor thing: explicitly inheriting from `object` isn???t
needed in Python 3 anymore. It doesn???t hurt, but it can be removed
for simplicity.
This appeared a few hours after my own posting
<https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/113807/2>.
I fear that such things are going to become a lot more commonplace.
Just look at the web-scraping and "fake" (parasitic?) websites that
existed before this surge in AI stuff. It can only get worse.
On 2026-08-07, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:34:07 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:
I saw the response - it was not mythical. It certainly looked weird,
and plagarising.
Here???s a copy from my email notification:
I had a quick look through this commit and noticed a couple of
small things that might be worth considering.First, there are a
few `asyncio.ensure_future()` calls where the returned task isn???t
stored anywhere.From the docs, it looks like keeping a reference
to the task is recommended so it doesn???t get garbage-collected
while still running. `asyncio.create_task()`might be a better fit
here, or a `TaskGroup` could help manage the references
automatically.
Also noticed `_connect_async()` could be written a little more
cleanly by using an `else` block after the exception handling.
That keeps the successful connection path separate from the retry
case and makes the flow a bit easier to follow.
One other minor thing: explicitly inheriting from `object` isn???t
needed in Python 3 anymore. It doesn???t hurt, but it can be removed
for simplicity.
This appeared a few hours after my own posting >><https://community.asterisk.org/t/need-help-testing-testsuite-untwisted/113807/2>.
I fear that such things are going to become a lot more commonplace. Just look at the web-scraping and "fake" (parasitic?) websites that existed before this surge in AI stuff. It can only get worse.
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