Pro tip: That AI code review tool caught a bug I missed for 3 months

My coworker Ben finally convinced me to run our Python scripts through an AI reviewer last week. It flagging a variable scoping issue that had been quietly corrupting our data pipeline since July. Has anyone else had an AI tool find something embarrassing like that?

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rose_hart3127d ago

Does anyone else think we are leaning too hard on these tools though? I get that it saved your bacon on that variable scoping thing, but now you are trusting an AI to catch what you missed for months. What if it misses something bigger next time? I feel like we are trading one set of blind spots for another. Maybe spend that time writing better tests instead.

dianab6827d agoMost Upvoted

@rose_hart31 I read something last week about how these tools learn from our own blind spots, so they might just be amplifying our existing mistakes. Makes you wonder if we are just swapping one set of problems for another, right?