alt Hacker NewsDo you use an agent harness to have it review code for you before you do?
If not, you don't know how to use it efficiently.
A large part of using AI efficiently is to significantly lower that review burden by having it do far more of the verification and cleanup itself before you even look at it.
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This is correct, but part of the issue is that it significantly increases token usage costs. Some companies are doing:
- PRD and spec fulfillment review
- code review + correction loops
- security review + corrections
- addl. test coverage and tidying
- addl. type checks and tidying
- addl. lint checks and tidying
- maybe more I haven't listed
And these are run after each commit, so you can only imagine the costs per engineer doing this 10, 20, 50+ times per day depending on how much work they're knocking out.
> Do you use an agent harness to have it review code for you before you do?
Right now you need to be Uncle Moneybags to do this in your personal life.
If you're lucky, your employer is footing the bill but otherwise... Ugh. It's like converting your app running perfectly fine on a cheap VPS to AWS Lambda. In theory, it's fine but in reality the next bill you get could make you faint.