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Someone will have the "brilliant" idea to fix this by having chatbots review code in 5... 4... 3...
I could swear I’ve seen a shartup with this pitch
will try check tomorrow, rn I’m enjoying the sounds of the first thunderstorm of the season
Thanks now you've sent me down the rabbit hole since I searched for this and clicked on the first ad: coderabbit.ai
One of the code reviews they feature on their homepage involves poor CodeRabbit misspelling a variable name, and then suggesting the exact opposite code of what would be correct for a "null check" (Suggesting
if (object.field) return;when it should have suggestedif (!object.field) return;or something like that).You'd think AI companies would have wised up by this point and gone through all their pre-recorded demos with a fine comb so that ~~marks~~ users at least make it past the homepage, but I guess not.
Aside: It's not really accurate to describe
if (object.field)as a null check in JS since other things like empty strings will fail the check, but maybe CodeRabbit is just an adorable baby JS reviewer!Aside: the example was in a .jsx file. Does that stand for JavaScript XML? because oh lord that sounds cursed
The target group for their pitch probably isn't people who have a solid grasp of coding, I'd bet quite the opposite.