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AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?


Exploring the paradox of using AI to review code that was written by AI, and whether this approach makes sense.

Recently, I was curious to see if there exists a power law in the number of PRs opened by individual Greptile users. A large part of why PR reviews happen is to ensure every new piece of code is getting a fresh set of eyes. For an AI code reviewer it might be the set of steps it takes to review a diff, checking for bugs, formulating comments, and finally self-assessing comment severity, plus the context retrieval along the way to ensure it’s looking at the relevant docs files and other code files in the codebase.

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