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bcrosby95 • today at 3:46 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

The problem with hand review I always had was trying to teach the other person. You don't want to present them with an avalanche of problems. So you pick the most important 5. Over time this iterates and you build someone good at what they do.

The good part of LLMs is you don't have to worry about overloading them: you can just outline every problem with the code they produce.

The bad part of LLMs is they don't really "get better" at this stuff. I'm not training a human, and there's a limited amount LLMs can learn. So the training phase never really ends - it's Eternal September.

There's also the problem of this ultimately being my code. It isn't Claude's - Claude isn't a person.

I still read the code. I use LLMs to review it. But I also review it myself. Ultimately its faster than before, and probably better quality (because I can just give all the problems to the LLM), but slower than people doing zero review.