TL;DR: this is an ad for CodeRabbit AI code review tool
Kent Beck does mention CodeRabbit, however he also highlights the benefits of pairing with humans, as he later goes on to say:
It’s not pairing. Pairing is a conversation with someone who pushes back, who has their own ideas, who brings experience I don’t have. CodeRabbit is more like… a very thorough checklist that can read code.
I’d rather be pairing.
I miss the back-and-forth with another human who cares about the code. I miss being surprised by someone else’s solution. I miss the social pressure to explain my thinking out loud, which always makes the thinking better.
Cool motive, still sounds like an ad
For a sec, I read “Tiddy first”
The genie produces code at a pace no human reviewer can match. Coding isn’t the bottleneck anymore. I can explore three different implementations before lunch. I can refactor aggressively because the cost of trying something is so low.
Gross
If coding was the bottleneck, there was something badly wrong and AI is not the solution.
That’s not to say it’s the fault of the devs who are using AI, but we obviously haven’t given them the languages and libraries they need to express themselves concisely.
