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> Bots don't understand how their words can hurt people's feeling That's a super weird way of putting it, which makes me hesitate to agree with you. buuuut I
by hypfer 1mo ago
> Bots don't understand how their words can hurt people's feeling
That's a super weird way of putting it, which makes me hesitate to agree with you.
buuuut I agree that the LLM bot review experience is usually miserable, as the persona these things use is insufferable. It's a know-it-all only-speaks-in-imperatives thing, where the speaker lacks the actual merit that would grant them the right to that style.
LLMs can be very useful for code review, but the existing product implementations took a bit too many pages out of Kafka's works and are a bit too real in simulating a dysfunctional bureaucratic org.
- selfhoster1312 1mo ago> That's a super weird way of putting it, which makes me hesitate to agree with you. Yes that's weird sorry. What i meant is it belongs in the uncanny valley. I don't have any good/bad feelings about test suites and CI feedback, it's very binary. Receiving a mail about a comment on my PR raises my hopes that it reached the maintainers (or interest from other contributors); receiving LLM text destroys my expectations. Then, about the content itself, it has a very patronizing tone. Saying out loud every single thing that's in my +25/-3 PR is really infantilizing. I would probably have slightly less negative reactions if it only commented to suggest improvements, instead of patting me on the back. See this example: https://github.com/TwiN/gatus/pull/1712#pullrequestreview-4673872788 https://github.com/TwiN/gatus/pull/1712#pullrequestreview-46...