alt Hacker News"LLM-assisted code review won't be a huge disruptor" is quite the prediction. Because it already is in a very big way. The take on LLMs seems incredibly out of date and out of touch with reality. (Which of course, has moved/advanced very fast the past months/year)
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That’s not his prediction, he made it clear they are useful. His conclusion for that section is this:
> The only real question for me is: Are the LLM-code-review tools economically viable outside the bubble?
Did you continue reading? His argument is exactly that, like all the previous model checkers, LLM's are going to give us some bugs for a while. Then that is going to stop.
His argument is not that they aren't going to find any bugs, but rather that at some point those bugs will be fixed. At which point we will continue on as usual.
Maybe he's trying to prove the point of why he's ready to retire...
He explains how he thinks it won’t be a disruptor:
> Just on that repeated experience, I suspect we have already seen more than half of the “worst software bugs found with LLM-tools” list.
On the other hand, it’s not clear to me how you think that it already is “in a very big way”.