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Hi HN, edgy thought, seeing a lot traction and usage of code review bots lately across both startups and medium/larger companies. Whether it's CodeRabbit, Graphite Diamond, etc. (there are plenty more).

If models keep improving, and we eventually inject these code review bots with more and more context to validate even things like business logic, tribal knowledge, etc. do you think we could eventually arrive very soon in a place where we no longer do traditional code reviews?

Just work with your coding agent to develop things, get it reviewed by a code review bot, fix any issues caught, and ship.

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racenis · 6h ago

I have tried getting LLMs to review code that I have written and most of the feedback I get is useless. It's as if they can only spot the most trivial of issues, or even worse -- they find issues in places where they don't exist.

I guess that they are moderately useful for finding copy-paste errors.

Disposal8433 · 5h ago

If i don't review the code anymore, don't expect me to be responsible for it.

changisaac · 4h ago

That’s true haha, even if obsolete for catching bugs, etc. one reason for human code reviews might just be accountability.

mindwok · 4h ago

Personally, I don't even think you'll have a code review bot. You'll just do it in the IDE.

aynyc · 2h ago

A year? Yes, 10? Probably not.

Lionga · 1h ago

We are in year 3 of engineers being obsolete with in 6 months... Pretty sure in 20 years we still have human code review

al2o3cr · 1h ago

I'm 100% confident LLMs could replace any code review being done by people who think this is a good idea, since both parties understand the assignment to the same degree.

throwmeaway222 · 7h ago

unlikely- as long as your code is fairly micro-serviced about, llm generated code is fairly superior in all ways.

palata · 5h ago

> llm generated code is fairly superior in all ways.

Depends on how good your code is :-).

abstractspoon · 6h ago

I'll still be reviewing my own code

digitaltrees · 7h ago

Yes

cranberryturkey · 7h ago

no, i just started doing copilot PR reviews on github and its pretty damn good.

Disposal8433 · 51m ago

Source? I'm sure you won't answer that one because tech bros never have proofs about what they do. Also don't bother if it's JS or TS.

danielPort9 · 4h ago

That’s dumb. Your bosses will decide to pay copilot instead of paying you. We should use llms in a way that empowers us, not in a way that replaces us.

jacobegold · 7h ago

lol. human code review is all we will do day-to-day in a year

(i'm the lead engineer on diamond)

changisaac · 4h ago

Surprised that’s your take considering Diamond is one of the code review bots that are ahead of the pack. Curious why you think that’s the case? Is it a technical limitation? Or something about human code review that is just fundamentally hard to copy?

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