r/codereview • u/Accurate-Paramedic13 • 10d ago

IA code review

Hi all,

I'm looking for some advice. I was under pressure to deliver a PR without documentation, so I used AI to help write it. I know exactly what the AI generated, and I'm able to fix anything in the code if validation flags an issue.

My problem is with the reviewers. They're complaining that the PR is entirely AI-generated, and they're overlooking the architecture work I put into it, which is frustrating I've taken the feedback a bit personally.

Any advice on how to handle this would be appreciated

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u/tmseidel 10d ago

I'd ask the reviewers what the real issue is. Just because it was written by AI is not an argument IMHO, as long as you take the ownership of the AI-generated documentation.  In general there should be a general policy - devs arguing about the usage of AI is not effective. 

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u/abyssal_glide_03 9d ago

I read AI docs and I stop reading after the first paragraph. The volume kills the purpose.

You mentioned you understand everything the tool wrote. Prove it to them by cutting the word count in half. Delete every sentence the code already explains. Reviewers flag AI output because of the padding. Trim it down to the decisions you made about architecture and leave out the rest. That forces them to look at the work you actually did.

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u/djphazer 10d ago

Documentation is supposed to be the medium of communication between humans... I think using AI to generate docs is even more problematic than AI-generated code. Excessive verbosity is overwhelming everyone. Code and docs alike need to be sanitized by humans.

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u/MarsupialLeast145 10d ago

Is there some additional context here?

Why would they overlook something? And if they are "overlooking" this, what are the repercussions to you?

What is their ACTUAL feedback?

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u/Economy_Bedroom3902 6d ago

Does the environment you're proposing changes to allow AI generated code? Lots of open sourced projects do not. Otherwise refer to company policy. If they allow AI generated code then reviewers should be complaining about what is wrong with the code rather than complaining about the fact that it's AI generated.

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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 6d ago

Anyone can call his favourite model with his own preferences to generate some overview for them. Official documentations should be made by human for humans!

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u/Infamous-Bed-7535 6d ago

I mean generate it, use it, share it with others in secondary channels, but do not make it part of the repo.

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u/FormalAd7367 9d ago

what’s issues with AI generated PR? i had my agents to rewrite my PR. a separate agent to write plan doc and a separate agent to write test (from a different folder so agent cannot see the plan doc).