Post #2430900

2026-05-06 17:49 UTC

@pythonbynight@hachyderm.io some people at my company are also pushing for broader LLM use while trying to "find solutions to the code review problem". I was thinking a few days ago, they sound like they're too embarrassed to say "let's get rid of reviews entirely". Like they're hoping someone else will suggest it. Or that the practice will disappear organically. Clown engineering 🤡

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@pythonbynight@hachyderm.io 2026-05-06 17:55

@goatcheese@eldritch.cafe Yeah. We were basically dancing around the subject, and I don't think my manager liked it when I said that we are practically making ourselves redundant. We're being asked to use LLMs to review code that LLMs wrote in the first place... this can ALREADY be done within the code generation, PR push process--so what's the point of an additional review? There's still some rationalization about keeping the human in the loop for the sake of "domain expertise" or something like that--but as I told a friend of mine, that's just cover for "accountability"... if/when something goes wrong, it's the "human in the loop" who will be blamed.

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