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by Leherenn 314 days ago
Only has a sanity check/better hints. But I use it for my own PRs, not others'. Usually it's not much to review and easy to agree/disagree with.

I haven't found it to be really useful so far, but it's also very little added work, so for now I keep on using it. If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall.
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fcantournet 314 days ago
> If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall.

That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :)

It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever that means) while costing you more in time, opportunity, effort, or even false sense of safety, to generate more harm than it will ultimately save you.

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Leherenn 314 days ago
Sure, but so far the cost is very minimal. Like 1 minute per PR on average. A crash in production and the subsequent falloffs is probably a good week of work and quite a bit of stress. That gives me quite a few PRs.

And it's not even safety critical code.

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