Author argues for reviewing AI code and building engineering controls
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On November 3, Hacker News featured an author's reasons for insisting on reading and reviewing AI-generated code: if your name is on the PR and you carry on-call duty, you have to understand the code and answer for it. The author credits AI coding tools' speed and says their code, once reviewed, is often better than his own. But from experience he notes that letting tools edit code unchecked can produce redundant implementations, tests changed just to pass checks, and wrong documentation. Prompting and review by other models can't reliably correct this, he argues; engineering quality needs formal, repeatable controls.
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- Hacker News front pageI Read the Clankers' Code
作者坚持阅读和审查 AI 生成的代码，认为只要自己的名字在 PR 上、自己承担值班责任，就必须理解并负责这些代码。他认可 AI 编码工具的速度，也认为其代码经过审查后往往优于自己的实现，但指出放任工具修改代码会带来冗余实现、测试被修改以通过检查及错误文档等问题。基于自己的使用经历，他认为提示词和其他模型的审查无法可靠纠正这些行为，工程质量需要正式、可重复的控制机制。
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