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AI Review Method Uses Famous Engineers' Personas to Find Flaws
A developer created a methodology called Named-Persona Adversarial Review, using AI to role-play as engineers like Linus Torvalds and Richard Feynman to critique code. In eight rounds with 24 personas, the method found eight bugs in its own documentation and reduced file size from 8.3KB to 4KB while adding new features. The approach aims to overcome AI's blind spots by grounding reviews in real, citable engineering philosophies.
Meridian48 take
The technique is clever but relies on the AI's ability to accurately simulate specific engineers' thinking, which may introduce its own biases.
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