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dawnerdyesterday at 8:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

If I'm reviewing AI code, I don't want AI summaries. I want to be able to read the code and understand what it does. If I can't do that, the code the AI output isn't very good. In theory, your AI changes should be smaller chunks just like a real developer would do.


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ahmadyanyesterday at 8:52 PM

Quite the opposite, AI should work longer and interrupt the human less often (Tokens are cheap, interruptions are expensive). So we want to push the agent's horizon to infinite, now when they do make interruptions (e.g. Creating diff) it will be larger chunks and more complex, so these summaries are actually quite useful.

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cpan22yesterday at 8:48 PM

I agree with that - with Stage we're not trying to replace reading code with AI summaries, but rather guiding the reviewer through reading code in the way that makes most sense and coming away with the best understanding

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