alt Hacker News> If that's something you're worried about, review the code before running it.
It takes more, not less, time to thoroughly review code you didn't write.
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Depends. If I was the one coming up with the implementation anyways, it's basically just the "coding" part that was replaced with "fingers hitting keyboard" and "agents writing to disk", so reviewing the code certainly is faster, you just have to "check" it, not understand it from scratch.
If we're talking receiving random patches where first you have to understand the context, background and so on, then yeah I agree, it'll take longer time probably than what it took for someone to hammer with their fingers. But again, I'm not sure that's how professionals use LLMs right now, vibe-coding is a small hyped world mostly non-programmers seem to engage in.
>It takes more, not less, time to thoroughly review code you didn't write.
Nope, it takes way less. Else PR reviews would take as long as coding, which they obviously don't.
Writing 1000 lines, figuring out the nuances of the domain, fixing bugs, testing, takes way more time that reading and reviewing the resulting code.
Besides, you can even ask another agent to review it. Different brand of agent even.