alt Hacker News>I (and many other engineers) already automated it. My agent responds to review requests and reviews as me. Company policies enforcing human code review are futile.
This is also known as being a terrible engineer. If a company enforces human review and someone deliberately tries to circumvent this with an LLM, I'd fire that person in an instant
The reason for human code review is:
1. So *you* understand what's going on, not the LLM, and people can ask you questions about it
2. Because LLMs are not that good at code review
It seems weird to brag about literally not doing your job. It sounds like you could be replaced with a python script, what value do you bring?
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It seems weird to get angry about a change that is happening and will continue to happen due to what the market demands from software, which I believe will be the speed/ability to solve problems, rather than its own stewardship
Or that their company does not in fact enforce human PR reviews or even encourages AI PR reviews.
this is exactly right
blake smith has a really good post on this - that mental alignment among the team is the primary purpose of code review - https://blakesmith.me/2015/02/09/code-review-essentials-for-...