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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
(www.thenerve.news)
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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That's because it's not actually reviewing the code, rather just producing text that statistically looks like review comments.
So it does look vaguely useful, e.g. if code has null checks, review comments usually won't ask for them to be added, but it's never actually reviewing, or understanding, or reasoning, or anything else people claim.
It's like an actor playing a doctor in a TV show, they're not actually diagnosing patients, they're just following a script that looks like it.
Doctors "humanity" kills a lot of people, every day, that wouldn't have died if they did a statistical matching of their symptoms to the available research literature.