You need to tell him that. Seriously. Pick some especially bad example to point at, and come to him with, “Hey Bob, I used to get real value from your review comments. I could tell you were thinking about what to say and it helped me to produce better code. Now it seems I am mostly seeing LLM-generated junk like this one that doesn’t help anybody. This isn’t an improvement, can you go back to the more helpful way you used to do things?”
Eh, I get you, but the guy is my lead, and I’m a senior member. There is a bit of office politics involved here. My corporate-fu is not that good. Also there is a push to use AI tools from the top of the chain of command. I hate this, so much, but I need bring it in a more casual and friendly conversation.
Say it however you want that works for your relationship.
What I meant to be saying there was — if nobody tells him his review comments aren’t helpful anymore, then he probably won’t know.
I’m speaking from the perspective of somebody who spends like 1/2 their time or more doing code reviews, if I’m wasting people’s time I would want to know it
You need to tell him that. Seriously. Pick some especially bad example to point at, and come to him with, “Hey Bob, I used to get real value from your review comments. I could tell you were thinking about what to say and it helped me to produce better code. Now it seems I am mostly seeing LLM-generated junk like this one that doesn’t help anybody. This isn’t an improvement, can you go back to the more helpful way you used to do things?”
Eh, I get you, but the guy is my lead, and I’m a senior member. There is a bit of office politics involved here. My corporate-fu is not that good. Also there is a push to use AI tools from the top of the chain of command. I hate this, so much, but I need bring it in a more casual and friendly conversation.
Say it however you want that works for your relationship.
What I meant to be saying there was — if nobody tells him his review comments aren’t helpful anymore, then he probably won’t know.
I’m speaking from the perspective of somebody who spends like 1/2 their time or more doing code reviews, if I’m wasting people’s time I would want to know it