Comment by epolanski
3 months ago
I think that coding reviews are no longer feasible as they used to.
The pace and expectations have increased and a human can barely cope with reviewing its own code, let alone colleagues'.
They are not going to disappear in critical aspects of a codebase, nor shouldn't, but the industry will eventually reward self sufficient individuals able to keep the pace, harness and run adversarial reviews against the design and implementation autonomously.
I'll also say the harsh truth. A well implemented adversarial flow will do either better than your peers or will deliver 95% of the value at a fraction of the cost.
The industry has never valued product, let alone code quality except in places they are core to the business.
Otherwise you would not have MIT-bred leetcode ninjas writing react/tailwind bugged monstrosities at half a million/year for billion dollar products.
How'd that go for the most recent Windows update?
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> Damn you folks are legit stupid.
You're definitely out of the line with such language.
And naive.
Your biggest error is thinking that:
1. there's quality software out there. It's definitely far from the industry standard, even in high budget big techs, far from it
2. that people opening the wallet care about software quality. good has been always better than perfect
3. that the average PR review has significant impact on code quality, clearly false by point 1.
4. that proper AI usage for doing adversarial reviews of plans and implementations won't catch by far more issues than the average pr out there nit picking coding styles but not even bothering to test the feature/branch
Thus I stand to my opinion. Quality PRs are too expensive nowadays and the engineers that will thrive will be the already great ones that will be enhanced by the tool, not companies shelling money on reviewing the average garbage MIT-bred leetcode blackbelt is slopping.
They will only involve core/critical code and libraries.
Don't bother my man. All of the commenters talk about the "bad code" AI writes as if the code that's out there in the world isn't also compete garbage.
Of course, everyone here is in the 99th percentile in ability, am I right?
The sheer number of people I'm meeting that say about trivial things "AI cant do that" is astonishing.
Oh well.
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