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Think we're pretty close to the point where we'll no longer need to prompt AI to refactor or review the refactoring if it's done within tight constraints i.e. a
by alertchecker 1mo ago
Think we're pretty close to the point where we'll no longer need to prompt AI to refactor or review the refactoring if it's done within tight constraints i.e. absolutely no change to functionality. But when functionality changes may be acceptable as part of it, it's less clear - in my experience AI isn't at a point yet where it can always be trusted to "understand" what the requirements are (including to what extent they can be allowed to evolve), what is or isn't acceptable in terms of user experience etc. That's where human review is still useful and in many cases, essential.
- bonjourjoel 1mo agoRequirements as product owner are not covered at all by AI, 100% agree. But in this programming-only example study, the refactor changes the functionnality very seriously, and it has to go deep in the core of the system, find all the traps, plan everything. And the agent succeeds without human code review. Code review was impossible because of the complexity and size of the task. Code review was not necessary, nor useful, nor essential, and even practically impossible.