Marc Brooker
@MarcJBrooker
Distinguished engineer at AWS. AI, agents, databases, and serverless. Views are my own.
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@copyconstruct Long-term I suspect you're going to end up caring about those things about as much as you care about your compiler's register allocation decisions.
Could you do better? Maybe. Is it worth doing better? Only for a tiny fraction of code.
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The "mixed mode" where humans look at some code reviews, assisted by review tools, is also valuable today. But probably even more transient.
The idea that humans will reliably look through code to find the increasingly rare issues that automated tools miss seems like a fantasy.
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There's been a ton of talk about the role of humans in code review, and when and how humans should be signing off on changes.
I believe that, long-term, humans have no role in routinely reviewing code.
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