Reviewing AI Code Is Not a Viable Argument
Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development. It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons. It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons.
- ▪Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development.
- ▪It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons.
- ▪It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons.
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| Original publisher | Musings about software |
| Canonical URL | https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/reviewing-ai-code |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:24:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T15:43:14.176Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T15:43:14.176Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 8gwIOzoFuMX3 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Reviewing AI Code Is Not A Viable Argument 18 Jul 2026 - Thomas Depierre I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development. It is not because of IP laws problems (even if they are highly problematic), nor is it for ecological and ressource comsumptions reasons. It is not even for “they are all crap” reasons. My problem with LLM Coding Assistants is that I cannot see, in the face of the scientific evidence, how they can help someone write code better or faster. And the thing that irritate me is that it seems that none of the proponents of LLM Coding Assistants seems to ever address this problem and this evidence when they defend their tooling choices. Worse, it seems that they give fuel to my arguments everytime they write a rebuke of the skeptics.
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