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Ask HN: What AI tools help me understand a MR?
1 point by chacham15 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'm trying to incorporate AI code tools into my flow, but my issue is that I spend a lot of time code reviewing AI. I know there is vibe-coding vs engineering and I'm trying to stay on the engineering side while trying to figure out how to properly use AI. In that spirit, I wanted to find an AI tool that helps me code review better. More specifically, look at a diff and present it to me in a way that makes it easier for me to understand what is going on. I am not looking for a tool to do a code review in my place. Does anyone have a flow or tool they use already to do this? Thanks!
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Cloudflare has a good post on the Ai or review system. We modeled ours after it. Much of it comes down to two things

1. Removing the mechanical parts from agent responsibility in your CI workflow

2. Having good instructions and subagents / team / loop

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Check out the branch, run the code locally, read it, ask claude code or codex or whatever harness to explain things you don't understand. Ask it to diagram the code boundaries and modules and model the system so you can visually understand it.

use AI to write smoke tests without access to the code i.e. first describe something a correct implementation should do with only the knowledge of the interface not the implementation, and run the tests to see if it behaves the way you think it should.

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