It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
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.
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.