• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Do you work in tech? How often do you submit PRs? AI reviews are one of the best applications for the technology and non-LLM CI tools have existed for ages to serve a similar but less efficient purpose

    I don’t like what AI has done to the software industry but we need to give credit where its due

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      Do you work in tech?

      One canwork in tech and not use LLMs. Your comment sounds like it should be the norm, or already is.

      Also, the discussion is about using LLMs in open source projects, which put a lot more focus on understandable and maintainable code than the software industry typically happens to do.

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        I work in tech and I don’t use LLMs. From my experience, they’re catastrophic especially in those positions where they review code/actions. Reviews are the last line of defense against bad code, bugs, vulnerabilities or destructive actions. Giving that role to an RNG parrot that is often confidently wrong is almost suicidal.

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          From my experience, they’re catastrophic especially in those positions where they review code/actions.

          That’s interesting. I am currently searching for ways that I can use them a bit to chill-pill our CTO without sinking the company (which is very deep in the water with technical debt)… at least until I get another job.

          Can you expand why they are that bad in this use?

          My current idea is to pin up new architecture by hand, define new interfaces by hand, and then let the LLM occasionally fill in a function body. And maybe, maybe, an “ai refactored” branch which has just the purpose to showcase what happens if one is not careful - and will never be merged, at least not by me.