Built a tool to do Agentic code review for large changes and use the agent to understand / review the code

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The author built Seendiff, a tool for agentic code review to track progress, collaborate with LLMs like Claude, and streamline large code changes, and asks about others' review processes.

I love coding with LLMs - but I think agent code being writting to any maintainable project still needs human review. Even the most competent models sometimes gets things wrong - eg. overcomplicate simple things, do things the wrong way, miss the obvious etc. Besides, LLMs don't fully understand the human context yet - for eg. the design tradeoffs that matter in my context, my business. I do this: (1) Always lead with a plan esp. when the change is complicated. Have two versions of the plan one Claude's plan in its own (un-humanly paresable) langauge. A second simplified one in STE100 that I can parse. (2) Read / skim over over eveything its done before merging. I think this is bare minimum if you want to still keep the codebase as yours and not completely YOLO-vibe your project. For (2) I tried quite a few tools - VS code diffs, github diffs, meld - nothing quite seemed to have all the features I needed for this particular workflow: a. Keep track of what I've seen b. Review / approve in chunks c. Collaborate with LLM to understand the code. Seendiff tries to solve the above with a minimal footprint. What does your agentic code review process look like?
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