[brunoborges]

Before AI, shipping code to production used to be a two-person task: one writes the code, another one reviews the code. Now with AI writing the code, the developer that was supposed to write the code, only has to review it. And this is because they are responsible for the code they ship.

Code review has become unbearable because before AI, developers were reviewing code as they went writing it in the first place. Granted, never perfect and why a second person reviewing code was (is?) a best practice. But effectively there was always some level of code review happening as developers wrote code.

I fear it is way more boring to review financial and medical documents completely written by AI than it is to write (and at the same time review) by yourself. And way more dangerous to ship mistakes than in most software.

[traceroute66]

> the developer that was supposed to write the code, only has to review it.

But more often than not that developer ends up reviewing far more lines of code due to the typical verbosity of an LLM.

[brunoborges]

100%... that's why I say code review became unbearable!

[areoform]

I am/was writing up an interesting hypothesis with Claude's help. But I redid the most important parts of the data pipeline manually. As in went in and cmd-c + cmd-v'ed the data by hand to create a reference, and I'm randomly spot checking 33% of the larger records.

The analysis itself; I'm doing it by hand.

[kiba]

Why not the developer write the code, then the AI review the code, and then finally a signoff from another human?

Far too often people think productivity is the point. Maybe the point is developer's understanding of the product IS the product?

You're not engineering black boxes, you're engineering legible boxes.

[brunoborges]

> Far too often people think productivity is the point. Maybe the point is developer's understanding of the product IS the product?

This is an interesting take.

[orochimaaru]

Isn’t there a code review agent?

[alwillis]

Most workflows use a sub agent to review the code or an agent from a different company.

For example, Codex can review code written by Claude, etc.

[aydenp]

/s?