alt Hacker NewsYou do. Even the latest models still frequently write really weird code. The problem is some developers now just submit code for review that they didn't bother to read. You can tell. Code review is more important than ever imho.
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But it's so BORING. AI gets to do the fun part (writing code) and I'm stuck with the lame bits.
It's like watching someone else solve a puzzle, or watching someone else play a game vs playing it yourself (at least that's half as interesting as playing it through)
It is remarkably effective to have Claude Code do the code review and assign a quality score, call it a grade, to the contribution derived from your own expectations of quality.
Then don’t even bother looking at C work or below.
> The problem is some developers now just submit code for review that they didn't bother to read.
Can you blame them? All the AI companies are saying “this does a better job than you ever could”, every discussion topic on AI includes at least one (totally organic, I’m sure) comment along the lines of “I’ve been developing software for over twenty years and these tools are going to replace me in six months. I’m learning how to be a plumber before I’m permanently unemployed.” So when Claude spits out something that seems to work with a short smoke test, how can you blame developers for thinking “damn the hype is real. LGTM”?
I agree with you. But I have to say, it is an uphill battle and all the incentives are against you.
1. AI is meant to make us go faster, reviews are slow, the AI is smart, let it go.
2. There are plenty of AI maximizers who only think we should be writing design docs and letting the AI go to town on it.
Maybe, this might be a great time to start a company. Maximize the benefits of AI while you can without someone who has never written a line of code telling you that your job is going to disappear in 12 months.
All the incentives are against someone who wants to use AI in a reasonable way, right now.