alt Hacker News> Partially because the agents follow the guidance much more closely than humans do and there is far less variance.
Ouch. Managing human coders has been described as herding cats (with some justice). Getting humans to follow standards is... challenging. And exhausting.
Getting AIs to do so... if you get the rules right, and if the tool doesn't ignore the rules, then you should be good. And if you're not, you still have human reviews. And the AI doesn't get offended if you reject the PR because it didn't follow the rules.
This is actually one of the best arguments for AIs that I have seen.
Yes, as I mentioned in my other replies, what I've seen is that quality has gone up and coalesced around a much higher bar with far less variance than before as we've refined our docs and tooling.
In some cases, it was "instant"; dev's MCP server connected to our docs was down -> terrible PR. We fix the MCP connection and redo the PR -> instantly follows the guides we have in place for best practices.