The author argues for evaluating Ph.D. candidates based more on the oral thesis defense than on the actual thesis.
By essentially the same reasoning, I’ve been arguing for prioritizing in-person design/code reviews over code-only async PR comments.
The important thing is to verify that the human has a coherent design in mind and can demonstrate that it got implemented, regardless of who or what was at the keyboard. “I dunno, I guess Claude thought this was a good idea” is not a coherent design.
By essentially the same reasoning, I’ve been arguing for prioritizing in-person design/code reviews over code-only async PR comments.
The important thing is to verify that the human has a coherent design in mind and can demonstrate that it got implemented, regardless of who or what was at the keyboard. “I dunno, I guess Claude thought this was a good idea” is not a coherent design.