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NoCursor, Claude · 7 Feb 2026

Overall, I’d say AI tooling has maybe close to doubled the time I spend on PR reviews

cmiles74 on Hacker News

doubled the time I spend on PR reviews

In the thread “We mourn our craft”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Breaking query changes, unused annotations, and slow PR reviews.

… The Copilot bot we use on GitHub slows down PR reviews by recommending changes that look reasonable yet either don’t really work or negatively impact performance. Overall, I’d say AI tooling has maybe close to doubled the time I spend on PR reviews. More knowledgeable developers do better with these tools but they also fall for the toolings false confidence from time to time. …