These people all work for what seems like huge (video game) businesses. It’s a pretty entitled position to say results aren’t the most important thing. The fact is, they are. If you want the freedom to do things your own way at your own pace, go make your own indie game. I guarantee these “journey over results” types would end up with feature creep and never ship a finished product though.
On the coding side, I’m a senior dev who has been in the industry for 20 years. Not video games but for the web. Easily 40% of the code I ship now is AI written. I’ll use a different AI to review my PRs saving my coworkers time catching the little mistakes I overlooked.
I’ve cut days off my workload over the past year and to say all AI is slop is being intentionally obtuse to the tools. Basically we’ve all been promoted to manager roles and LLMs are the mid level workers we oversee.
This article is trying to paint a picture that these tools are without value and I can feel your finger hovering over the downvote button but the fact is the genie is out of the bottle. They’re not going away and today is the worst they’ll ever be. People that say they’re slower with these tools are going to get left behind by people who are proficient with them.
As a web/devops dev, I 100% agree with your statement. I use GitHub Copilot in Neovim, Zed, Emacs, most of the time it just finishes my sentences or generates comments/docblocks/unit tests, I’m not using it to generate features.
On the flip side though, the company also went all in on Microsoft Copilot, and holy fuck it’s obnoxious trying to use Excel or Outlook with it shoving itself into your face every time you try to do something. And I have no way to disable it.
On GitHub, after you make a PR go up to the URL. Right after the pr number add .diff
This will give you a full pr diff. Paste that into what LLM you’re using. I usually prompt with something like
“You’re a senior web engineer. Give this PR a review being aware of modern code practices and syntax. Try to uncover possible bugs. Give 3 to 5 actionable suggestions.”
There’s probably a way to do this in the tools, I’ve just found this works.
These people all work for what seems like huge (video game) businesses. It’s a pretty entitled position to say results aren’t the most important thing. The fact is, they are. If you want the freedom to do things your own way at your own pace, go make your own indie game. I guarantee these “journey over results” types would end up with feature creep and never ship a finished product though.
On the coding side, I’m a senior dev who has been in the industry for 20 years. Not video games but for the web. Easily 40% of the code I ship now is AI written. I’ll use a different AI to review my PRs saving my coworkers time catching the little mistakes I overlooked.
I’ve cut days off my workload over the past year and to say all AI is slop is being intentionally obtuse to the tools. Basically we’ve all been promoted to manager roles and LLMs are the mid level workers we oversee.
This article is trying to paint a picture that these tools are without value and I can feel your finger hovering over the downvote button but the fact is the genie is out of the bottle. They’re not going away and today is the worst they’ll ever be. People that say they’re slower with these tools are going to get left behind by people who are proficient with them.
“I’m an accountant and I use a calculator, so all artists should have to use photoshop.”
As a web/devops dev, I 100% agree with your statement. I use GitHub Copilot in Neovim, Zed, Emacs, most of the time it just finishes my sentences or generates comments/docblocks/unit tests, I’m not using it to generate features.
On the flip side though, the company also went all in on Microsoft Copilot, and holy fuck it’s obnoxious trying to use Excel or Outlook with it shoving itself into your face every time you try to do something. And I have no way to disable it.
Hi there, using intellij but I can’t seem to find an Ai code review, what tools are you using?
On GitHub, after you make a PR go up to the URL. Right after the pr number add .diff
This will give you a full pr diff. Paste that into what LLM you’re using. I usually prompt with something like
“You’re a senior web engineer. Give this PR a review being aware of modern code practices and syntax. Try to uncover possible bugs. Give 3 to 5 actionable suggestions.”
There’s probably a way to do this in the tools, I’ve just found this works.
Thanks 🙏