CodeRabbit AI reviews

While I’m still very much worried about AI use for large amounts of code (e.g., beyond the normal line-or-two code-complete tools) for a few reasons, I’m experimenting with using an AI code review bot: https://www.coderabbit.ai/

I’m looking for feedback, but I think this use case seems okay:

  • it’s not writing code, it’s adding comments and doing some level of static analysis
    • any changes it suggests are marked accordingly and have to be manually approved
  • it’s helping with code review because at the moment, it’s a big need (i.e., I’m the main one doing review and I can’t review my own code)
    • it suggests areas to consider or test for manual inspection

I’m curious to know other thoughts (e.g., is this a slippery slope or does it seem okay to you too).

Okay, it looks like no one has strong negative opinions on this, so I’ll continue to do it.

I’ve marked it to only do reviews on command, e.g. @coderabbitai review and we’ll see how it goes on both avogadrolibs and avogadroapp repositories.