[dawnerd]

I cringe whenever someone suggests to just have an agent review because “it knows code better”. An ai agent wouldn’t catch a lot of things a human would flag. And before someone goes you just need to prompt it better, that’s a huge amount of work for large projects and you’re still essentially begging it to do what you want.

[throwatdem12311]

I have not encountered anything more soulcrushing in my entire career than having to spend hours going over LLM generated slop that was vomitted out by a contractor in Pakistan that doesn’t give a shit, to only have the review itself be fed in as a re-prompt, and get the same 2000 line ball of spaghetti back with even more issues and going back and forth until I just give up and approve it.

No, AI code review doesn’t help. Claude can’t even give me correct line numbers 80% of the time, literally just makes them up, and more than half of it is false positive BS anyway.

[dawnerd]

Yep I’ve had to approve bad code too due to timelines and now our codebase has so much tech debt it doesn’t even matter anymore. And worse, as new people work on the code the LLMs pick up the bad code and it’s been spiraling from there.

[theshrike79]

And an AI will catch a lot of things a human wouldn't flag.

Why not use both?