What’s depressing is that the AI agents are actually way better than humans at catching weird edge cases that are easy to overlook. So the AI code reviews are actually super valuable.
But it’s still an LLM and still doesn’t understand anything and can’t be accountable, so humans are still in the picture and that slows everything down.
All that, I think, is fine. The true problem I’m seeing is that reviewers are starting to get lazy and sign off on things because the AI gave it a pass.
I think it’s fine to lean on the AI to catch weird race conditions. It’s less fine to blindly accept that 2 lines of code requires a 12 line comment explaining a bunch of bullshit about what the code used to do.
Standards are dropping. It feels like a race: will developers become incompetently lazy before the AI is actually good enough to do their old jobs?
God, the fucking comment spam drives me absolutely fucking nuts. I used to enjoy reading 2 consecutive changes with 12 lines of comments because it meant I was in for a hell of a story of woe and misery. Now, it’s just the fucking slop machine doing its thing.
With regards to LLMs being good enough to do our jobs, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Token prediction is a neat trick, but you actually need something that can reason and understand to replace human intellect, and nothing I’ve seen on the horizon appears to be capable of that.
Yes and it’s a giant bottleneck.
What’s depressing is that the AI agents are actually way better than humans at catching weird edge cases that are easy to overlook. So the AI code reviews are actually super valuable.
But it’s still an LLM and still doesn’t understand anything and can’t be accountable, so humans are still in the picture and that slows everything down.
All that, I think, is fine. The true problem I’m seeing is that reviewers are starting to get lazy and sign off on things because the AI gave it a pass.
I think it’s fine to lean on the AI to catch weird race conditions. It’s less fine to blindly accept that 2 lines of code requires a 12 line comment explaining a bunch of bullshit about what the code used to do.
Standards are dropping. It feels like a race: will developers become incompetently lazy before the AI is actually good enough to do their old jobs?
God, the fucking comment spam drives me absolutely fucking nuts. I used to enjoy reading 2 consecutive changes with 12 lines of comments because it meant I was in for a hell of a story of woe and misery. Now, it’s just the fucking slop machine doing its thing.
With regards to LLMs being good enough to do our jobs, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Token prediction is a neat trick, but you actually need something that can reason and understand to replace human intellect, and nothing I’ve seen on the horizon appears to be capable of that.