It’s crazy they didn’t before.

It’s really hard for everyone everywhere to vet AI’s output. It’s impossible if you’re not already an expert in the subject matter.

You think my brother is fact checking ShitGPT when he asks it about taxes? Most of the time, he immediately believes the answer is 100% right. If it’s something particularly important to him, he thinks he’s smart and adds something like “Don’t make stuff up. Don’t lie. Cite your sources.” And then that erases all doubt he had.

My manager has recently shat out 2 VERY large code changes in our codebase. He basically just shat it out and said, “Please review to make sure it’s right.” You know how hard it is to verify something you didn’t write? Nobody hit the weird edge cases while writing it. Nobody read the documentation on how to use this tool or library, so we don’t really know how this library works.

Then there’s reviewing for tech debt. Nobody typed out the code, which made them realize this code was shit because it’s super verbose. Nobody swapped out the implementation mid-way through because they realized there’s a better way to do it.

And I’m supposed to “review” a 1000+ line change? Realistically, not happening.

Yes, the reviewer is supposed to catch stuff. But, previously the writer also had some responsibility and built trust over time. This person is very meticulous or this person tends to make lots of mistakes around X. I trust Alice tested the edge cases. Bob told me he was worried about X part of the code.

But now the writer just lobbs some shit over the wall and the reviewer has to do all the work.

Again, realistically, not happening bro. I got my own shit to work on. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, then I can’t be bothered to read it.

LGTM, whatever. I don’t care. Let it blow up.