[funnyfoobar]

The process you have described for Codex is scary to me personally.

it takes only one extra line of code in my world(finance) to have catastrophic consequences.

even though i am using these tools like claude/cursor, i make sure to review every small bit it generated to a level, where i ask it create a plan with steps, and then perform each step, ask me for feedback, only when i give approval/feedback, it either proceeds for the next step or iterate on previous step, and on top of that i manually test everything I send for PR.

because there is no value in just sending a PR vs sending a verified/tested PR

with that said, I am not sure how much of your code is getting checked in without supervision, as it's very difficult for people to review weeks worth of work at a time.

just my 2 cents

[mergesort]

Heya, I’m the author of the post! To be clear I have AI write probably 95% of my code these days, but I review every line of code that AI writes to make sure it meets my high standards. The same rules I’ve always had still apply — to quote @simonw “your job is to deliver code you have proven to work”.

So while I’m enthusiastic about AI writing my code in the literal sense, it’s still my code to understand and maintain. If I can’t do that then I work with AI to understand what was written — and if I can’t then I’ll often give it another go with another approach altogether so I can generate something I can understand. (Most of the time working together to understand the code works better, because I love to learn and am always open to pushing my boundaries to grow — and this process can tuned well to self-directed learning.)

And to quote a recent audit: “this is probably one of the cleanest codebases I’ve ever audited.” I say that emphasize the fact that I care a lot about the code that goes into my codebase, and I’m not interested in building layers of unchecked AI slop for code that goes into my apps.

[funnyfoobar]

Thanks for the clarification.

personally it would be too difficult for me to understand large chunks of work, like in your case "a week's worth of code" at a time. just wondering how do you go about it?

second, how do you pass such large PR's to your co-workers?(if you have any)