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nuky

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    Comment #46639258

    Oh yeah tree-sitter it's a great foundation for semantic structure. What I'm exploring is more about what we do with that structure once someone/smth starts generating thousands of…

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    Comment #46639043

    Agreed - that trap is very real. The open question for me is what we do when atomic, 5min readable diffs are the right goal but not realistically achievable always. My gut says we …

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    Comment #46638996

    This is exactly the gap I'm worried about. human review still matters, but linear reading breaks down once the diff is mostly machine-generated noise. Summarizing what actually cha…

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    Comment #46633157

    This came out of reviewing a lot of large refactors and AI-assisted changes. The goal isn't to replace code review (ofc) or relax standards, but to make the consequences of changes…

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    Comment #46624522

    It was precisely because this was going too far that I thought the consequences of the active adoption of LLM tools could be made visible. I'm not saying LLM is completely bad—afte…

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    Comment #46624296

    fair — that’s what I do as well)

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    Comment #46624279

    Yeah difftastic and similar tools help a lot with formatting noise really. My question is slightly orthogonal though: even with a cleaner diff, I still find it hard to quickly tell…

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    Comment #46624258

    That matches my experience too - tests and plans are still the backbone. What I keep running into is the step before reading tests or code: when a change is large or mechanical, I’…

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    Comment #46620767

    Makes sense. What about latency? for typical and hard queries

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    Comment #46620574

    Nice. And how do you handle candidates near H3 boundaries?

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    Comment #46620414

    Sounds interesting. What's the stack under the hood?

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    Comment #46619922

    Just to clarify - this isn’t about replacing diffs or selling a tool I ran into this problem while reviewing AI-gen refactors and started thinking about whether we’re still reviewi…

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    Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?

    I’m wondering whether traditional diffs are becoming less suitable for AI-assisted development.. Lately I’ve been feeling frustrated during reviews when an AI generates a large num…

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