Ask HN: Will human code review still exist a year from now?

4•changisaac•3h ago

Hi HN, edgy thought, seeing a lot traction and usage of code review bots lately across both startups and medium/larger companies. Whether it's CodeRabbit, Graphite Diamond, etc. (there are plenty more).

If models keep improving, and we eventually inject these code review bots with more and more context to validate even things like business logic, tribal knowledge, etc. do you think we could eventually arrive very soon in a place where we no longer do traditional code reviews?

Just work with your coding agent to develop things, get it reviewed by a code review bot, fix any issues caught, and ship.

Comments

throwmeaway222•3h ago

unlikely- as long as your code is fairly micro-serviced about, llm generated code is fairly superior in all ways.

palata•40m ago

> llm generated code is fairly superior in all ways.

Depends on how good your code is :-).

digitaltrees•3h ago

Yes

cranberryturkey•2h ago

no, i just started doing copilot PR reviews on github and its pretty damn good.

danielPort9•5m ago

That’s dumb. Your bosses will decide to pay copilot instead of paying you. We should use llms in a way that empowers us, not in a way that replaces us.

jacobegold•2h ago

lol. human code review is all we will do day-to-day in a year

(i'm the lead engineer on diamond)

abstractspoon•2h ago

I'll still be reviewing my own code

racenis•2h ago

I have tried getting LLMs to review code that I have written and most of the feedback I get is useless. It's as if they can only spot the most trivial of issues, or even worse -- they find issues in places where they don't exist.

I guess that they are moderately useful for finding copy-paste errors.

Disposal8433•1h ago

If i don't review the code anymore, don't expect me to be responsible for it.

mindwok•5m ago

Personally, I don't even think you'll have a code review bot. You'll just do it in the IDE.

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