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colechristensenlast Tuesday at 7:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Build tools to keep it in check.


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vidarhlast Tuesday at 7:23 PM

Really, this. You still need to check its work, but it is also pretty good at checking its work if told to look at specific things.

Make it stop. Tell it to review whether the code is cohesive. Tell it to review it for security issues. Tell it to review it for common problems you've seen in just your codebase.

Tell it to write a todo list for everything it finds, and tell it fix it.

And only review the code once it's worked through a checklist of its own reviews.

We wouldn't waste time reviewing a first draft from another developer if they hadn't bothered looking over it and test it properly, so why would we do that for an AI agent that is far cheaper.

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