Here are my thoughts on the free online textbook Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney, author of the Linux kernel’s RCU synchronization mechanism. I read a lot of this … Read more
The open source AI code review agent. English | 简体中文 What is Open Code Review? Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool. It originated as Alibaba Group’s internal official AI code review assistant — over the past … Read more
There is a particular flavor of horror that only people who work with formal systems for a living can fully appreciate. It is the horror of data loss, of silent corruption, of the thing that fails without logging an error. … Read more
The ProblemAnyone who wishes to archive material, be it images, documents, or videos, is faced with an almost unsolvable problem when one considers our over-reliance on new technology. Computer drives are predicted to have a life span of five years, … Read more
Here’s a trick I don’t see enough people using: Add .diff to the end of any PR URL and copy&paste into a LLM You can get an instant feedback on any GitHub PR. No Copilot Enterprise. No browser extensions. No … Read more
Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or the Copilot coding agent. Why is that? Large language models are good at … Read more
I’ve been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim. After reading a recent article on Nim … Read more
The idea behind an AI code review agent is simple. Listen to PR events, send each diff in the PR to an LLM and ask it to find issues, and then comment on the diff with any issues you find. … Read more
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. … Read more
This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the Sourcegraph Dev Tools meetup at the Cloudflare office in San Francisco on December 16th, 2024. I am Daksh, co-founder of Greptile – AI that understands large codebases. Our most … Read more