alt Hacker News> Ask Fable to conduct an adversarial /ultareview of their PR and send the same wall of text back to them.
This won't help. Your wall of text will just get fed right back into the LLM.
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This is the point where you decide. It used to be low stakes and easy to care about the job you did for other people.
Do you want to put the same effort into your job when nobody else does, or should you reserve your thoughts and just feed it back into the LLM?
The LLMs are being advertised as output increasers but companies so far are using them as excuses to fire people instead of creating previously unbelievable things. It might be better to feed your coworkers output back in and use your thoughts to start the company you thought you never had time for.
What I don’t understand is what value is the person adding to this equation? Put another way, what’s the difference between them feeding the wall of text to the LLM, and you feeding the wall of text to the LLM, bypassing them in the process entirely?
It helps in that it offloads the code review burden you'd otherwise be doing.
As a last resort, do the code-review with a live pair programming session.
If they can't explain their own code then it is by default a bad pull request.
At the end of the day, everyone's time is being wasted on tokens and on the increasing cognitive complexity of AI generated code.
It will help if your wall of text cost less tokens than theirs, they will run out before you do if you have the same company quota per person.