AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer?

Alternate title: I’m using AI to write code. Is it silly to use AI to review it? I'm Daksh, a co-founder of Greptile. Our product uses AI to review pull requests to surface bugs and anti-patterns that humans might miss. Here is an example of what that looks like. Recently, I was curious to see if there exists a power law in the number of PRs opened by individual Greptile users. In other words - were some users opening orders of magnitude more PRs than others? A quick SQL query later, I discovered that there is a power law to this. I also noticed something else very interesting: At the far left of the long list of GitHub usernames was “devin-ai-integration[bot]”. An AI bot was writing more pull requests than any individual human. [1] Seeing as Devin uses the same LLMs under-the-hood as Greptile, it does raise an interesting question - should the author be the reviewer? [1] Granted that this is somewhat of a technicality. Devin’s contributions across many orgs are being counted in ... Read full article.