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Re: Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?

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Personal/side-business: Almost fully automated PR review flow. Local agents review before PR, Github Actions runs Codex/Claude to review the PR, if everything passes (Unit, e2e, lint, etc) then I merge. I'll review critical code paths if they are touched but that's not too often. Day Job: Similar but more human-in-the-loop and we are still feeling out "what needs human review" and "agent review is good enough". LLM r…

This matches my experience. For a lot of agent-written code, reviewing the final diff feels too low-level and too late. I'd rather review the plan&assumptions. If those are right, AI will probably get the implementation right as well.
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