Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review

Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-AI-Code-Review

[spicfoo]

This is very much a real thing in one of the places I am consulting for. The current capabilities are limited but it does help guide junior developers to avoid some of the common mistakes so by the time a human reviewer is looking at it, they can focus on more high level problems.

[anda_skoa]

An interesting LLM based review check would be to look for similarities in existing code.

"Hey, the function you are adding here exists almost identical over there"

Maybe even across products for the same company/organisation to identify things that should be put into libraries.

[bug77]

I feel there is a great push to "AI" anything about code writing, but many solution are really, really poor. I've tried Amazon Q and it sucks big time. JetBrains has their own solution that I considered paying for, but didn't after reading reviews.

Like spicfoo said, it can be useful for juniors, but there's a big caveat: juniors aren't experienced enough to notice when the AI gives them crappy advice.

[bug77]

An interesting LLM based review check would be to look for similarities in existing code.

"Hey, the function you are adding here exists almost identical over there"

No AI needed, JetBrains' code analyzer has been doing that for over a decade. I just love that thing.

[spicfoo]

No AI needed, JetBrains' code analyzer has been doing that for over a decade. I just love that thing.

I mean, code analyzer is using machine learning which is a form of AI that has existed for a long time. It is not using a LLM you mean.

[theuserbl]

I don't like April fools.
There existing April fools like this one by a german game magazine:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5NcCkwvCMy/

There stand on the topic, that there existing no longer Steam Sale.
The reason in the text is, that Valve wants to depend it on the review of magazines.
If 90% of the game critics are good, then it will costs 90 Euro.
And if only 30% of the game reviews saying, that the game is good, it will costs 30 Euro.

So in the text you can recognize, that it isn't meaned seriously.
But there are some people who have only red the topic, that there no longer exists Steam Sale.
And thiis people reposting the story today (_three_ days after the 1st of April) and saaing, that they now want to boycott Valve.

Sometimes people linking on any other day in the year to an April fool with saying "Look, what interesting article I have found.." , etc.

So on every day it is possible, that you are confronted with an April fool. The 1st of April is only the day, where new April fools are generated.

And that is the reason, why I don't like this fake news.. eh... April fools.

[varikonniemi]

I don't like April fools.
There existing April fools like this one by a german game magazine:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5NcCkwvCMy/

There stand on the topic, that there existing no longer Steam Sale.
The reason in the text is, that Valve wants to depend it on the review of magazines.
If 90% of the game critics are good, then it will costs 90 Euro.
And if only 30% of the game reviews saying, that the game is good, it will costs 30 Euro.

So in the text you can recognize, that it isn't meaned seriously.
But there are some people who have only red the topic, that there no longer exists Steam Sale.
And thiis people reposting the story today (_three_ days after the 1st of April) and saaing, that they now want to boycott Valve.

Sometimes people linking on any other day in the year to an April fool with saying "Look, what interesting article I have found.." , etc.

So on every day it is possible, that you are confronted with an April fool. The 1st of April is only the day, where new April fools are generated.

And that is the reason, why I don't like this fake news.. eh... April fools.

April fools day is to remind you that anything you read should be thought through and analyzed before believing in it. The intellectually lazy think this effort should only be needed 1 day of the year.

[rmfx]

Maybe Linus is tough, but Linux is an amazing success, the biggest open source success even.
That means his way of managing things deserve some credit.
If he says code is garbage, that's leading to long term positivity, because the code will get a true retake that will lead to fewer bugs, less maintenance, less rewrite, much less struggle in the future...

[sophisticles]

Sometimes the best ideas start off as a joke.

Linux kernel is a perfect example, Linus announced his intention to create an OS in April 1991, it was supposed to be a gag.

But people believed him and encouraged him and look where we are today.

I asked my ex-girlfriend out as a joke, then broke up with her as another joke and i have to say it was one of the best ideas i ever had.

So don't dismiss this idea as a pipe dream, i can see Michael writing an article about the first release in a few years.