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yashwantphogat

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About yashwantphogat

currently developing code review infrastructure called https://mergemonkey.dev/

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    How do you find early users for an MVP dev tool?

    Hi everyone, I’m looking for some perspective from people who’ve been through this. I’ve been working on a pull request reviewer for the last couple of months and recently got it t…

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    How do you find early users for an MVP dev tool?

    Hi everyone, I’m looking for some perspective from people who’ve been through this. I’ve been working on a pull request reviewer for the last couple of months and recently got it t…

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    Yes, team size really changes the dynamics. We ran into similar issues when reviews started taking over entire days. I’m building and testing a quieter review approach that only go…

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    Comment #46310754

    That makes sense. A lot of these tools seem to become useful once the extra noise is turned down. I’m actually building and testing a quieter review approach myself and trying to u…

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    Who has enjoyed using PR code reviewers? What worked and what didn’t?

    I’m curious about people’s experiences with pull request code reviewers, both human and automated. For those who have used PR review tools or bots: What did you actually find helpf…

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    Comment #46289438

    I’ve run into the same wall. The issue is not that AI “can’t code well”, it’s that it’s bad at large, aesthetic refactors unless you constrain the problem very tightly. A few thing…

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    https://mergemonkey.dev/ I’ve been working on a small GitHub app called MergeMonkey. It’s an AI PR reviewer, but intentionally quiet. It runs on new commits, gives a short structur…