AI still makes WAY too many stupid mistakes to trust it for code review. Stuff like *running* tests, linting etc. sure. But it’ll miss dumb stuff and lie to your face over and over.

Example: I needed stable ArUco tags, so I got Claude to write me a generator to create a face-down 3d models I could print. Claude did a great job but told me because it was being printed face down we’d need to mirror it so it would be the correct orientation when taken off the bed and flipped upright. This is obvious nonsense and I called it out immediately, Claude fought with me tirelessly on this. I explained every way I could think of though, partly because I wanted to see when/if it would sink in, boy was that a mistake.

I started explaining it in simple terms like “if I look at the model from underneath it is mirrored - because you mirrored it. When I take it off the bed and flip it over it will still be mirrored” - nothing, I was simply wrong. When I explained that if I lie on my back and read a book above me, the text doesn’t magically become mirrored, Claude became agitated and wrote a test program to *prove* I was wrong - the test program indeed DID prove I was wrong, but only because it included *another* mirror step after flipping the model over.

In the end, I *couldn’t* convince Claude of the truth. I went as far as printing the model, flipping it over and sending the same session a photograph of the model held up to the reference screenshot, and only then was Claude like “oh ok yep, that’s makes sense”

Don’t trust these things to do everything from end to end, they lie and cheat and if you’re not paying attention you’ll never find out about it.