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LLMs are incredibly useful despite writing poor quality code, but we need better code review tools.

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Where do we start? Many are saying this. (Me included.) I have a personal predilection that it really ought to be something that can work local-first. Online-optional-if-ever. But there's so many directions to possibly go. Even if you happen to agree on that one significant narrowing.

I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit already just in pure "old school" review workflows. That's where I'm starting: first building a better diff viewer, then optimizing for code review. When I was spending 90% of my day in code editors, all the small details there mattered, now it's diffs.

So it's really about building the best possible tool that answers the question "what changed?", and "what does that mean?"