we have become "meat proxies" where everyone asks LLMs to fix things that are part of unfamiliar parts of the codebase and then asks someone else familiar to review the fix
abustamam on Hacker News
In the thread “Don't be a meat proxy”, replying to this comment
Helped: Finding straightforward bug answers and improving mental models for prompting.
Got in the way: Reviewing LLM fixes for unfamiliar code parts became a bottleneck.
… Then we were like "llms are no excuse for slop." Then we got our skills and context good enough to not require close review. And then everything became LLM driven and now we have become "meat proxies" where everyone asks LLMs to fix things that are part of unfamiliar parts of the codebase and then asks someone else familiar to review the fix. We're tending towards a solution to this because I dont think its a good usage of resources but every org will come up with their own culture and solution to this.