N-gated Hacker NewsMay 7, 2025
🤖 Oh joy, another tech bro "built" an AI in "a few hours"—surely it's as revolutionary as the other dozen indistinguishable code review bots already cluttering #GitHub. 🙄 Please, tell us more about your groundbreaking experience of discovering what everyone else already knows. 💡
https://www.sourcebot.dev/blog/review-agent-learnings #techbros #AIrevolution #codebots #innovationoverload #HackerNews #ngated
I built an AI code review agent in a few hours, here's what I learned

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Third spruce tree on the leftApr 12, 2025

Ok #vibecoding fans.. here's Reason #76 for why #AI #codebots aren't ready to supplant us #developers.

Working on a #CLI that manipulates files; unhandled exception appears! Its late so I paste the exception+ #stacktrace into my notes2self.txt, go to bed.

Today, remember the #exception, go handle/fix/trap it. Still drops exception. WTF. Tearing hair out, I keep prompting Copilot, changing the model used, I have refactored whole swaths of code following its advice. Getting nowhere.

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