Gautam Kamath on AI review: fun science experiment, but false positives can mislead people at scale
thegautamkamath · x · 2026-11-06
Gautam Kamath weighs the pros and cons of using AI to mass-review (research) code and work. Pros: it's a fun science experiment revealing what models like or dislike, and it can flag technical issues at scale — though models produce many false positives, flagging non-issues or trivially fixable items.
In the follow-up tweet he flags the deeper risk: people are influenced by AI outputs. Individually weak, but aggregated across many people the effect compounds. He doesn't take these AI opinions seriously himself, but less experienced or more agreeable people might.
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