I ended up rejecting the PR and writing my own very small local patch for the bug
olvy0 on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Does a human still review your code?”
Got in the way: Introduced subtle bugs and unrelated refactoring in a small patch.
… made by a teammate using Claude for a not very significant bug, where in addition to fixing it (in a very roundabout way), it introduced 2 new very subtle bugs, and refactored a large portion of another function that was unrelated to the code, and made several observations and comments which were subtly wrong and out of touch with the rest of the code. I ended up rejecting the PR and writing my own very small local patch for the bug. Other people in the team use Claude to help them review my own PRs, and it sometimes finds minor issues, although there was only a single time it found a major issue. …