Comment by ecb_penguin
18 days ago
This is true for all code and has nothing to do with AI. Reading code has always been harder than writing code.
The joke is that PERL was a write-once, read-none language.
> Speaking from experience.
My experience is all code can have subtle errors, and I wouldn't treat any PR differently.
I agree, but when working with code written by your teammate you have a rough idea what kind of errors to expect.
AI however is far more creative than any given single person.
That's my gut feeling anyway. I don't have numbers or any other rigorous data. I only know that Linus Torvalds made a very good point about chain of trust. And I don't see myself ever trysting AI the same way I can trust a human.
It depends what we set as the bar for the AI. Like now, the bar wasn't even "have all tests pass without modifying the actual tests". That is probably lower than for any PR you would need to look at.