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impjohn12/09/20251 replyview on HN

>then tell it to give you the top 10 things wrong with the code, then tell it to fix the five of them that are valid and important.

I would be cautious of this. I've tried this multiple times and often it produces very subtle bugs. Sometimes the code is not bad enough to have 5 defects with it, but it will comply, and change things that don't need to. You will find out in prod at some point.


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colechristensen12/09/2025

To be clear, I'm instructing it to generate a list of issues for me. I then decide if anything on that list is worth fixing (or is an issue at all, etc.)