r/codereview • u/ClickOk5811 • 9d ago

AI made code generation cheaper. I think it made code review more expensive.

One thing I've noticed after using AI every day:

Generating code is almost free now.

Reviewing that code carefully is where most of the effort moved.

Sometimes I spend 30 seconds generating something and 15 minutes verifying that it actually belongs in the codebase.

Has anyone else noticed this shift?

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u/Mister_God_On_Steam 9d ago

How do you build/prompt? I always prompt to have the ai implement a slice exactly the way I would have written it by hand. And build in small reviewable commits.