alt Hacker NewsI don't get the point of AI pr review.
If the AI can review the pr, it can do so before the PR exists in the first place.
It's a tool/skill/prompt. Just share it with the end user or encode it in the codebase in some files.
It may actually be even more useful as that person will use it often and improve it or can it.
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pdntspa • today at 2:38 AM
With the way memory systems work, I can see the value in having a different person's AI conduct the review as that AI's 'memory' is going to have a slightly different perspective aligned with the developer piloting it
sick_of_slop • yesterday at 11:12 PM
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That sounds good. But it doesn't work in practice from my experience.
The exact same skill in the hands of one person will have vastly different outcomes in the hands of a different person. The review skill I built myself has been shared with folks. They (say they) use it before they put up a PR. I still catch things with the same skill. That is evolving as I catch the model(s) at BSing. Even if I would re-share it all the time, when I catch it, these other people using the same skill wouldn't catch it.
And that is exactly why building a general purpose review agent (or skill) is harder than me having my own evolving skill. If I have to "properly" release a skill/some automation, I will likely err on the side of not having too many false positives. That is harder than still relying on a human to review the AI reviewer. The same people that were really good actual human reviewers of a PR are probably the ones that are good doing the same thing while AI assisted. And the ones that really needed these other human reviewers and processes to help them be productive are probably going to produce a vibe coded mess if left to their own devices with nothing but some AI.