On: Redesigning source control at Anthropic

[kenjackson]

They do say the following:

“Our team members still review every change request for the system, but they now examine the intent of the change as opposed to reading every line of code.“

[duttish → kenjackson]

Hm, that doesn't make sense to me.

The difference between intent and implementation seems like a very common source of bugs?

If intent and implementation was the same thing programmers as a profession would have been left behind 20 years ago.

[kenjackson → duttish]

Probably is a source of some bugs. But probably what they’re seeing is that it isn’t a major factor. Rather a bigger factor is agents trying to make changes were the intent isn’t aligned. And note, they don’t say they never look at the code. I suspect that valued human experience is having a feel for what types of changes is AI more likely to make mistakes with.

[charliebwrites → kenjackson]

If my reviewers reviewed the “intent” of my code vs the actual code quality, I would’ve made Architect years ago…