If reviewing has become the bottleneck, the obvious - albeit slightly boring - solution is to slow down spitting out new code, and spend relatively more time reviewing.

Just going ahead and piling up PRs or skipping the review process is of course not recommended.

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throwaw12 2 hours ago | parent [-]

you are not wrong, but solution you are proposing is just throttling the system because of the bottleneck, and it doesn't solve the bottleneck problem.

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ptnpzwqd 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Correct, but that has and probably always will be the case.

You spend the time on what is needed for you to move ahead - if code review is now the most time consuming part, that is where you will spend your time. If ever that is no longer a problem, defining requirements will maybe be the next bottleneck and where you spend your time, and so forth.

Of course it would be great to get rid of the review bottleneck as well, but I at least don't have an answer to that - I don't think the current generation of LLMs are good enough to allow us bypassing that step.

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sjajzh an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You know we’ve had the ability to generate large amounts of code for a long time, right? You could have been drowning in reviews in 2018. Cheap devs are not new. There’s a reason this trend never caught on for any decent company.

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throwaw12 an hour ago | parent [-]

I hope you are not bot, because your account was created just 8 minutes ago.

> You know we’ve had the ability to generate large amounts of code for a long time, right?

No, I was not aware. Nothing comes close to the scale of 'coherent looking' code generation of today's tech.

Even if you employ 100K people and ask them to write proper if/else code non-stop, LLM can still outcompete them by a huge margin with much better looking code.

(don't compare it LLM output to codegen of the past, because codegen was carefully crafted and a lot of times were deterministic, I am only talking about people writing code vs LLMs writing code)

	▲	sjajzh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’m not a bot. > No, I was not aware. Nothing comes close to the scale of 'coherent looking' code generation of today's tech. Are you talking about “I’m overwhelmed by code review” or “we can now produce code at a scale no amount of humans can ever review”. Those are 2 very different things. You review code because you’re responsible for it. This problem existed pre AI and nothing had changed wrt to being overwhelmed. The solution is still the same. To the latter, I think that’s more the software dark factory kind of thinking? I find that interesting and maybe we’ll get there. But again, the code it takes to verify a system is drastically more complex than the system itself. I don’t know how you could build such a thing except in narrow use cases. Which I do think well see one day, though how narrow they are is the key part.