Comment by crazygringo

Not in my experience. I've pointed agents like Claude at existing codebases I work on, and it does a pretty solid job at identifying bugs. It's not garbage or slop at all.

There's a big difference between randos getting agents to hallucinate bug reports on GitHub, vs. when your own internal workflow of LLM-assisted code review is identifying real, legitimate problems in your new features.

This totally matches my experience. It's actually kind of insane how well LLM's like Claude are able to find edge cases, race conditions, overflows, states you didn't think could be reached. It really makes you think about code quality in a whole new way. Becoming aware of so many potential bugs when you write the code, vs. finding out from users over the coming months/years -- it forces you to really consider the costs of quality all at once in a way that simply wasn't possible before.