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AI PR reviewer is looking at the diff, not the intent

AI code review tools excel at analyzing syntax within a single file or a pull request. They can catch a missing semicolon a mile away. But they suffer from the same blindness as a rushed human reviewer: they review the diff, not the intent.They overlook the original prompt used by the coding agent and fail to grasp the broader business context of the application.Code review - whether conducted...

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I am enforcing a separation by freezing the intent before the code is written and verifying the evidence afterward. This is important because the intents themselves can be modified by the agent during development, which can make everything appear successful at the end. I am developing Shipmoor, an agent verification loop to address this issue, and I would love to hear your opinion on it.

The Missed Reality: Code Review Wasn't Built for the AI Era

The Bottleneck Isn't Writing Code Anymore. It's Trusting It.The speed at which AI generates code has officially surpassed our capacity to review it. For decades, the bottleneck in software engineering was writing the code. Today, the bottleneck has shifted entirely to trusting that the code can run effectively in production and actually solve the business problem.But let's be honest: humans...

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