AI code review blasted for flagging Carmack's inverse sqrt in 10 lines of working code

ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-09-08

Developer @jacobtechtavern argues AI code review comments are seldom useful: they always surface dozens of suggestions that bloat codebases with unnecessary defensive code.

His case in point: an Astra AI review of John Carmack's famous inverse square root hack flagged multiple issues in just 10 lines that have worked reliably in 3D game engines for decades — evidence that AI review output is often noise rather than value.

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