Vent: Paid $60 for an AI code review tool that flagged my comments as bugs

I tried out this fancy AI code review plugin last week thinking it would save me time. Instead it kept flagging my inline comments as 'undefined variables' and I spent more time overriding its suggestions than actually coding. Has anyone else had a tool that just doesn't get context?

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nancy27519d agoMost Upvoted

I swear these tools are great at hyping themselves up but fall apart the second you throw real code at them. I had a similar thing happen with a different AI checker that kept yelling at me about my import statements being 'unnecessary' even though the whole app would crash without them. What worked for me was turning off the aggressive stuff like inline comment scanning and only using it for big picture stuff like checking for security holes. These AIs are trained on perfect textbook code not the messy real world where we leave notes for our future selves. Honestly for $60 you could probably find a human code review buddy on a freelance site who would catch actual bugs instead of nagging you about comments.

coleman.jade19d ago

Wait, you spent a whole week fighting with a tool that costs sixty bucks instead of just turning it off after the first ten minutes? Sounds like you gave that thing way more attention than it deserved.