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mcintyre1994yesterday at 9:34 AM1 replyview on HN

I disagree with them on the large PR section. I agree that we sometimes don’t review these in detail, but the thing that enables that for me is a trusted contributor explaining deterministically what they did. I renamed whatever variable, or I changed whatever script in all these places, I updated whatever lint rule and fixed all the errors, I moved whatever to a separate package.

All of these can create a diff across lots of files, but can be easily explained to a reviewer.

The problem is that I can’t trust an LLM to act deterministically the way I trust some people to. So I can’t just take that higher level view of “yep cool that sounds like a good idea” and skim the changes.


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saxenaabhiyesterday at 9:55 AM

Ah, Human beings! Famous for their determinism, reliability, and for not making logical errors!

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