Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap

Re:Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap by ben_w on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:52AM (#48552884)

Perhaps, though I find myself disagreeing as the planning stage where it itself told me about WarpX. It just then made stupid decisions when left to itself.

Can plan… just not well. Can code… just ok. Can do TDD… just most of the time.

Definitely none of these well enough to be a dark factory though.

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Re:Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap by elefanto on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:30AM (#48555035)

Yeah, well.. I think a lot of engineers don't have reason to see the bulk of the industry but if you took an exactly median manager, programmer or PM and ask them a few things you also tend to find that they don't even notice that they will contradict themselves in their answer to a second question, etc. Organizations in general are harnesses that try to get some kind of result out of some pretty sloppy attention.

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Re:Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap by ben_w on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @10:11AM (#48555624)

> Organizations in general are harnesses that try to get some kind of result out of some pretty sloppy attention.

Certainly.

LLMs have superhuman attention, and are so cheap that they can be left running for absurdly long outputs. Despite this, still not high on the competence scale (yet*).

A human doesn't output a few million tokens every day, not even counting our inner monologues, but the AI asymptote to an upper bound of quality somewhat worse than a senior human.

* I would like to have a new job before they reach this point. Got a mortgage to repay.

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