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If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

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192 points imasl42 | 1 comments | 20 Sep 25 04:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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rollulus ◴[20 Sep 25 09:50 UTC] No.45311885[source]▶
I have received a few LLM produced PRs from peers from adjacent teams, in good faith but not familiar with the project, and they increasingly infuriate me. They were all garbage, but there’s a great asymmetry: it costs my peers nothing to generate them, it costs me precious time to refute them. And what can I do really? Saying “it’s irreparable garbage because the syntax might be right but it’s conceptually nonsense” but that’s not the most constructive take.
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1. bootsmann ◴[20 Sep 25 10:41 UTC] No.45312146[source]▶
Nothing makes me hate AI more than getting a slop PR written by one of the agent-wielding coworkers with the comments describing what the next line does for every line. More often than not it looks plausible but turns out to be completely unusable upon closer inspection. Incredibly disrespectful to do this to your coworkers imo, its proper that you call it out.