Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
by ludwik on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:05AM
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> I can recognize within seconds if a PR is an easy merge or a 5 minute phone call
I could, before LLM-authored PRs. They broke all my heuristics for what to check. LLMs can write code that looks incredibly professional and well thought out, and nowadays they almost never make the usual human mistakes (like off-by-one errors). But at the same time, they can make incredibly silly mistakes of the kind people would never make (like inventing brand-new parameters for some remote API call).
It feels like everything I’ve learned over the years about reviewing code no longer applies.
I could, before LLM-authored PRs. They broke all my heuristics for what to check. LLMs can write code that looks incredibly professional and well thought out, and nowadays they almost never make the usual human mistakes (like off-by-one errors). But at the same time, they can make incredibly silly mistakes of the kind people would never make (like inventing brand-new parameters for some remote API call).
It feels like everything I’ve learned over the years about reviewing code no longer applies.