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dchuk | 4 months ago

I feel like a useful tool someone should build now that LLMs are so capable, is some sort of automated walk through of a pull request, where it steps a reviewer through initially the overview and they why of the changes, then step by step through each change, with commentary along the way generated by the LLM (and hopefully reviewed by the pull requester for accuracy). Then the reviewer can leave comments along the way.

I’ve always found the cognitive overhead of going through a pull request challenging, seems like the paradigm can shift now with all of the new tooling available to all of us.

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clickety_clack|4 months ago

It seems like maybe you should just talk to your colleague who wrote the code. It would be far more efficient than having them create and review a whole review experience on top of the work that they did, and then have you try to understand a walkthrough document (that might have hallucinated explanations that the requester didn’t quite catch) plus the underlying code, plus still have to talk to them to ask clarifying questions anyway.

thunky|4 months ago

This sounds like you're making an argument against pull request descriptions in general. Like you just want to see code changes and have a meeting about it.