This has been my experience with coworkers who are big vibe coders as well. Another “sorry, big PR coming in that needs a review” and I’m gonna lose it. 50 comments later and they still don’t change.
When using agents like this, you only see a speedup because you’re offloading the time you’d spend thinking / understanding the code. If you can review code faster than you can write it, you’re cutting corners on your code reviews. Which is normally fine with humans (this is why we pay them), but not AI. Most people just code review for nitpicks anyways (rename a variable, add some white space, use map reduce instead of for each) instead of taking time to understand the change (you’ll be looking a lots of code and docs that aren’t present in the diff).
That is, unless you type really slowly - which I’ve recently discovered is actually a bottle neck for some professionals (slow typing, syntax issues, constantly checking docs, etc). I’ll add I experience this too when learning a new language and AI is immensely helpful.
You're absolutely right but I wonder if we'll have to ditch the traditional code review for something else, perhaps automated, if this agentic way continues.
> You're absolutely right
Claude! Get off HN and get back to work.
Oh my, that was unintentional. What have I become...
AI can actually review PRs decently when given enough context and detailed instructions. It doesn't eliminate the PR problem, but it can catch a lot of bugs and it can add comments to parts of the code that look questionable to instruct humans to manually verify.
You can also force the agent to write up a summary of the code change, reasoning, etc, fortunately, which can help with review.
Which industry are you in, that there is 1:1 ratio of coding to review hours?
SaaS company. And there absolutely isn’t - which is why we pay for devs. Mostly due to trust we’re able to review human PRs faster than equivalent AI PRs. Trust is worth a lot of money.