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by asdaqopqkq 1 day ago
Did anyone check the code changes manually? What if it is just slop code?
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I don't know about Chromium specifically, but in general Google requires 2 humans to have looked at every change (normally one is the author, but not necessarily for bot-authored changes).
They did roll this policy for Chromium changes a few years ago too.

And it wasn't just 2 humans but 2 Googlers. One Googler author and one Googler reviewer works. But an external author needed 2 Googlers to review changes, and all files needed to be reviewed by one author at least.

So if you touched multiple files owned by different people for a more complex feature, you would naturally get there.

Google has not really embraced vibe coded slop. Humans are involved before any code merges and the quality bar remains high.
Did you go and look at their open source repositories and open code review tools instead of fearmongering on HN? The answer can be found.