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Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by Paradigma11 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:49AM (#49683408)
But why did it pass the reviews of the independent subagents whose sole job it is to check all those things?

They are very good at that.

Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by jbellis on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:31AM (#49684427)
One thing we've noticed is that if you have model X implement AND review the same change, the reviewer often shares the same blind spots as the implementer. https://blog.brokk.ai/mjolnir-automated-cross-vendor-adversa...
Re:Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master – John Carmack by Yoric on Monday September 14, 2026 @07:33AM (#49695109)
In my experience, they are fairly good at catching stuff in human-written code, but they tend to gloss over agent-written code, just as human beings being lulled to complacency by superficially-looking competent code.