Comment by iloveoof
16 hours ago
I don’t see how that’s possible. When I am doing a comprehensive code review with rigorous functional testing of another developer’s work, it usually takes me around half as long to review as the developer took to write it. That includes the back and forth of MR issues and fixes. If AI writes it why would it take 100x longer to review than write it? At worst case it’s just a draft of something I can develop myself, so it shouldn’t take longer than 20 minutes. At best case it is a code review exercise so it takes me half as long.
AI can produce for you an amazing jpeg of an oil painting you’ve ideated together. You could print it out on a large format printer but you’re still only holding a printout of an AI oil painting. To actually make a piece of art that’s worth being on a wall and standing as an artwork, then you still have to paint the painting using oil paint.
Maybe robot arms can solve this last part one day.
I’m not an artist I’m a software developer, so the tools I use don’t matter, the outcomes do. If I am completing my tickets and the code is high quality and well designed then I am doing my job.
Depends on how the AI is used. If used intelligently, for short, readable code snippets, reviewing and understand is easy.
If used naively, where AI spits out 1000s of lines of code, that is far from perfect, written in a style that might not be what you are used to, it can take longer to parse, than if your colleague of 2 years wrote it.