I ask it to do the review first and when it gives the review there is none of that dynamic because it wasn’t me who levied the criticism
alanwreath on Hacker News
In the thread “If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort”
Helped: Removing human social dynamics and blame from the code review process.
Got in the way: Critiques are sometimes wrong and non-deterministic, so human review is still required.
… It’s funny because fast forward some of the ways I battle increasingly prolific AI generated material is through GitHub’s CoPilot bot. I ask it to do the review first and when it gives the review there is none of that dynamic because it wasn’t me who levied the criticism and also it’s not me who is trying to block code integration (so no grumpy goose or team dynamics problems). Having a bot do preliminary checks almost does what git hooks did for team dynamics way back when automation of linting, testing, style, etc was introduced as a common part of the review process. …