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you've really got to be careful with absolute language like this in reference to LLMs. A review agent provides no guarantees whatsoever, just shifts the distribution of acceptable responses, hopefully in a direction the user prefers.
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SR2Z • today at 3:11 AM
I mean, having unit tests and not allowing PRs in unless they all pass is pretty easy (or requiring human review to remove a test!).
A software engineer takes a spec which "shifts the distribution of acceptable responses" for their output. If they're 100% accurate (snort), how good does an LLM have to be for you to accept its review as reasonable?
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Fair, it's something like a semantic enforcement rather than a hard one. I think current AI agents are good enough that if you tell it, "Review this PR and request changes anytime a user uses a variable name that is a color", it will do a pretty good job. But for complex things I can still see them falling short.