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The bottleneck now is reviewing code, not writing it

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Re: The bottleneck now is reviewing code, not writing it

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We can't even review human-written code (fast enough). One of my PRs took over a year to review.

The problem is not the code review per se - it's understanding of the code and the changes by the people who need to further develop and maintain the code. Even if the so-called AI reviews the code, the review comments still need to be reviewed by the same people.

I don't know what the solution might be.

Re: The bottleneck now is reviewing code, not writing it

#4
well i also think there’s another bottleneck.. knowing how to structure your conversations with the LLM to not muddle things up.

when i work with these models, I try to maintain same way i would do things in real life and i tend to notice that it’s kinda taking me some time to even get these tasks done because now i have to read each lines to be sure it wrote it the way i would