A Big Rule Set Is an Attention Problem
Sixteen minutes and sixteen dollars to surface four low-severity nits, most of it spent scanning for rules rather than judging code.
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Shrink, Reorganise, Relocate: Why Synthetic Wins Fail on Real PRs
I spent a stretch trying to make an AI code reviewer cheaper without letting it miss more. Cost and recall, two dials pulling against each other.
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Fidelity Was a Vibe, Cost Was a Number
I told the agent fidelity came first. It optimised for cost anyway, for an embarrassing reason — cost had an estimator and a guardrail, and fidelity had a…
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The Nit Was Never Optional
Read that definition again. It's one of the most widely-cited code-review standards telling reviewers how to flag a small issue: say the author should fix it…
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Noticing Is Cheap, Judgment Is Scarce
The goal was never a cheaper reviewer. It was finding everything that is really there while posting nothing that isn't — and that objective, not the budget…
