I do trust them, but code is not theirs, prompt is. What if I trust them, but because how much they use LLMs their brain started becoming lazy and they started missing edge cases, who should review the code? me or them?
At the beginning, I relied on my trust and did quick scans, but eventually noticed they became un-interested in the craft and started submitting LLM output as it is, I still trust them as good faith actors, but not their brain anymore (and my own as well).
Also, assumption is based on ideal team: where everyone behaves in good faith. But this is not the case in corporations and big tech, especially when incentives are aligned with the "output/impact" you are making. A lot of times, promoted people won't see the impact of their past bad judgements, so why craft perfect code
I do think some of this is just a hype wave and businesses will learn quality and trust matter. But maybe not - if wealth keeps becoming more concentrated at the top, it’s slop for the plebs.
Honestly I'm not sure much has changed with my output, because I don't submit PRs which aren't thoughtful. That is what the most annoying people in my organization do. They submit something that compiles, and then I spend a couple hours of my day demonstrating how incorrect it is.
For small fixes where I can recognize there is a clear, small fix which is easily testable I no longer add them to a TODO list, I simply set an agent off on the task and take it all the way to PR. It has been nice to be able to autopilot mindless changesets.
AI changes none of this. If you’re putting up PRs and getting comments, you need to slow down. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
I’ll caveat this with that’s only if your employer cares about quality. If you’re fine passing that on to your users, might as well just stop reviewing all together.