He says he went several months without having to do a code review and it worked the vast majority of the time. That's incredibly impressive work by the AI.
AI may default to mediocre and often somewhat buggy code unless you iterate because that is just what the vast majority of human written code that it has seen looks like. But the fact that he got away with not reviewing the code for so long to me proves the opposite of his conclusion.
1690 lines of code in one file is a walk in the park for SOTA models.
He can just say something like:
"Please review and create a refactoring plan and test suite. I found atrocious architectural decisions like numerous special cases and if statements rather than using abstractions properly. Make a few notes in comments and architecture.md to never do this again."
One could also argue that it was a better decision each time by the AI to just never do a refactor unless prompted because that increases the likelihood of something breaking and you want to do that after you verify the minimum code change actually functionally does what you want.
Also I bet you the headline is a lie. He basically admits it by saying he is writing the core structure of the next version by hand ahead of time, implying that he will generate the rest. So the title is a half-truth at best.
AI may default to mediocre and often somewhat buggy code unless you iterate because that is just what the vast majority of human written code that it has seen looks like. But the fact that he got away with not reviewing the code for so long to me proves the opposite of his conclusion.
1690 lines of code in one file is a walk in the park for SOTA models.
He can just say something like:
"Please review and create a refactoring plan and test suite. I found atrocious architectural decisions like numerous special cases and if statements rather than using abstractions properly. Make a few notes in comments and architecture.md to never do this again."
One could also argue that it was a better decision each time by the AI to just never do a refactor unless prompted because that increases the likelihood of something breaking and you want to do that after you verify the minimum code change actually functionally does what you want.
Also I bet you the headline is a lie. He basically admits it by saying he is writing the core structure of the next version by hand ahead of time, implying that he will generate the rest. So the title is a half-truth at best.