[link redacted]
Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
1–10 of 82 posts
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#2Why is reviewing hard? I use LLMs for reviewing. It is dogmatic to review every line written by an LLM.
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#3Why is reviewing hard? I use LLMs for reviewing. It is dogmatic to review every line written by an LLM.
What kind of systems do you work on? Does it have production traffic? Is there a cost to downtime?
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#4Failures in production remain expensive.
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#5Writing blog posts has become cheap, making them sound human has become hard.
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#6Why is reviewing hard? I use LLMs for reviewing. It is dogmatic to review every line written by an LLM.
you arnt reviewing. youre playing loophole semantics.
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#7Why is reviewing hard? I use LLMs for reviewing. It is dogmatic to review every line written by an LLM.
I'm confused - are you purposefully pretending that the author isn't talking about human review?
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#8Why is reviewing hard? I use LLMs for reviewing. It is dogmatic to review every line written by an LLM.
I also like having long, pointed conversations with LLMs as I review code. Then when I'm done, it's different code, and it has all of my blind spots and knowledge gaps, so I cannot effectively review it anymore.
It's like turning a code review that requests you, into a code review that requests someone else. And it tramples on the original author quite a bit too. It's hard only having the ability to add incremental value to large amounts of code, instead of large amounts of value to incremental code.
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#9I’m not sure I agree with this or maybe I don’t understand. In my experience, the over engineered code LLMs create have more big problems. Rewriting vast parts of code when I have an outage or need a new feature means the code evolves far faster than my understanding. That gets more and more dangerous. Or maybe I’m not smart enough to follow the new pace?
Re: Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap
#10ai can do some of the reviewing, checking calling and called arguments, even things like crufty shell scripts.
but the higher-level "should you do this?" or "check your design" - could AI do that stuff?