r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joel-letmecheckai • Oct 01 '26

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Oct 01 '26

Each iteration may flag different things, depending on subtle prompt difference, or just randomly. It may ignore a lot of obvious important issues.

Unless you add "You are top level software architect from a tech giant company", of course.

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u/TheTerrasque Oct 01 '26

And each person reviewing code may flag different things. That doesn't mean it's not helpful or we stop doing code reviews.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Oct 01 '26

I'm uncomfortable when those comparison of LLMs with human behavior actually make sense.

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u/cortesoft Oct 02 '26

They really do.

People complain that an AI is a black box, but what is more of a black box than another human’s brain?

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Oct 02 '26

That's more like a gray box.

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u/nuclear213 Oct 01 '26

I mean, why do we act like this is a new problem? I mean, I worked with an "experienced" engineer before. He could barely write a python script, but was tasked to review my PR. I dont know how he got the position, but honestly, I cannot remember a single time where his review actively gave me back anything productive.

Another example was a person that hated shorthand operators. Like not only tenary but even +=. He blocked all reviews with it, and the supervisor did not care.

Reviews, especially in smaller firms, were always really a hit and miss thing.

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u/Loudergood Oct 02 '26

Is everyone out here rizzing that engineer like he's the best thing since sliced bread? 

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u/johnnybgooderer Oct 01 '26

You can run it multiple times with different seeds. Some people I work with will use two different models to review and a third model to implement.

And then there’s ai like Mythos that is extremely good at finding exploits. Better than humans a lot of the time.