It doesn't matter if it looks good
Author: Samuel Hierholzer	Date: 11 May 2026

Writing code using an AI agent is awesome and makes you super duper quick. Recent frontier LLMS write even somewhat decent code. So yey to that!

BUT if you look at the code and think to yourself doesn't look wrong to me, that’s NOT a review.

For a proper review, you need to understand:

• the code.
• why it was implemented that way.
• how YOU would implement it (and if that’s significantly different).

If you don’t know any of the three, your review is not thorough. And not worth giving to anyone else to review. It doesn’t even matter if the code you look at is AI written or not!

The LLM already speeds up the production of the code massively.

Please stop thinking it also increases the tempo in which you can understand it.

You’re already winning time by not writing the code. Take some of that time to read and understand the code.

If it feels like you could’ve written the code in the time it took you to understand it. Congrats. You might’ve learned something.

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PS: I’m not against AI. I’m just against becoming dumber by using it.