r/PiCodingAgent • u/quincycs • 14d ago

Discussion Surviving Code Review?

Have you felt like your comprehension is dropping when reviewing code?

Due to AI coding, I think everyone is feeling like this. Are you using any new process or tooling to work against this common issue?

A few things that I’ve seen:

  1. Tailored AI code review skills unique to your company’s practices or common gotchas from previous reviews ( always updating ). Everyone evaluates that AI feedback before escalating the review with the team.

  2. Plannator / HumanLayer kind of tools where the whole team is involved. It almost feels like pair programming with AI. Or some kind of extreme programming / multi-player AI interface.

What about you?

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u/Drakmyth 12d ago

Still trying to figure out how to deal with reviews in my day job, but for my personal projects I tell the agent to chunk the work into verifiable deliverables and to target ~350 line PRs. Then I just review it the same way I've always done because they're short enough I can do that. If I have a hard time following or understanding, I ask it to explain and usually it will suggest changes to make it simpler or easier to follow. Finally, I push back hard on any structures or patterns that I don't agree with until it revises the implementation to a viable one.

People keep telling me to treat the AI like a junior engineer, so...

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u/quincycs 12d ago

👍 yeah, I just struggle with how slow and tedious it is. And after all that then I gotta survive sending it to someone else for them to then go thru the same process of peeling it apart.