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Can I use AI for the code review? (discuss.online)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Lembot_0004@discuss.online to c/programming@programming.dev

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I've finished a small project that is rather non-standard for me: it has just a few hundred lines of logic written by me, and most of the code is rather banal functions I picked up from the different articles and doc sheets (you know, those functions that are quite "atomic" like "check if the process is running" or "get the process name by pid by reading /proc dir" or "get a mount point by a filename")

The code was written in a "ok, let's experiment if I can do this" approach, so now it is in a complete mess.

So the question is if is there some AI that can do an initial code review for me? I've tried GhatGPT, but it was completely banal and useless.

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Depends who it's for, but i would say no.

No, not if you are serious and have external customers or users that you are expected to serve/maintain.

AI as it is is just a power-hungry pattern recognition system. It will probably flag some things, whether true or not, depending on the language/framework. It's certainly not capable of performing an unassisted code review in a security/quality conscious environment.

I've spent too long fixing human errors, its going to be a mess with AI increasingly doing actual 'development'.

That sounds harsh, but it isn't meant to be. Just have a human expert review and investigate as early as possible so you know you are on track and not building around a glaring issue. Also, do a thorough review, testing, and penetration testing if there is a production environment with actual users.