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PunchyHamster • today at 2:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Well, I used to pay more attention to the code, and then I found that if I spent more tokens having the AI review its work than actually creating new features, I was able to get more, better work done.

Of course it did. Because reviewing code thoroughly is harder than writing it.

Writing only consists of "making sure it does the task", reviewer have to understand code first, check if it does the task, then check whether it doesn't affect something else negatively (and it can be meta things like "doesn't adhere to project style", even if technical side is correct)


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skydhash • today at 3:47 PM

> Of course it did. Because reviewing code thoroughly is harder than writing it.

If there's one thing that I learned from AI proponents is that they don't value correctness. They only want to write more code every day. Which actually baffles me, because for a given feature set, there should be a Definition of Done, and the only work left should be slight alterations for oversight and dependency updates.

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