News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post by jvanderbot on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:06PM (#45723517)
I get your point, but reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea.

As insulting as it is to submit an AI-generated PR without any effort at review while expecting a human to look it over, it is nearly as insulting to not just open the view the reviewer will have and take a look. I do this all the time and very often discover little things that I didn't see while tunneled into the code itself.

Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post by bicolao on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:15PM (#45723659)
> I get your point, but reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea.

Yes. You just have to be in a different mindset. I look for cases that I haven't handled (and corner cases in general). I can try to summarize what the code does and see if it actually meets the goal, if there's any downsides. If the solution in the end turns out too complicated to describe, it may be time to step back and think again. If the code can run in many different configurations (or platforms), review time is when I start to see if I accidentally break anything.

Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post by latexr on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:11PM (#45723593)
> reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea.

In the sense that you double check your work, sure. But you wouldn’t be commenting and asking for changes, you wouldn’t be using the reviewing feature of GitHub or whatever code forger you use, you’d simply make the fixes and push again without any review/discussion necessary. That’s what I mean.

> open the view the reviewer will have and take a look. I do this all the time

So do I, we’re in perfect agreement there.

Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post by afavour on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:12PM (#45723615)
> reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea

It is, but for all the reasons AI is supposed to fix. If I look at code I myself wrote I might come to a different conclusion about how things should be done because humans are fallible and often have different things on their mind. If it's in any way worth using an AI should be producing one single correct answer each time, rendering self PR review useless.

Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post by aakkaakk on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:30PM (#45723871)
Yes! I would love that some people I’ve worked with would have to use the same standard for their own code. Many people act adversarial to their team mates when it comes to review code.