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I'm a senior software engineer at my company. The AI slop is so bad that it's causing myself code review fatigue. The engineers are also intermediate with 3-4 years of experience.I had one guy report me to his manager because I wasn't letting him merge his PR in because of a critical bug with his code that his precious ai didn't understand.

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We're already at the stage of "code reviews are slow, we should have the agents do code reviews".

My previous employer even suggested code reviews are for human code only, AI-only code can go out without review as long as CI passes since the AI can be prompted to review its own code before committing.

Even better if ai writes the tests.

did it backfire to that guy?

It never does because however you frame it, AI is always the perfect scapegoat.

"Oh, I'm sorry, the bug was introduced by the AI and it made such a good case for it. Damn you claude, we'll do better next time. I'll add a code-review agent to find regressions."

this seems to be the true killer app of AI - accountability proxies. its interpersonal opium to have a third party that two ostensibly-in-conflict people can sink their negativity into.

its a major reason why military use of AI is so chilling - "look, I explicity ASKED the murderbot not to kill babies when I authorized the napalm strike on the maternity ward! BAD BOT"

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