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Peck Pilot Review: Does the Hen Know Best?

We let our AI pair programmer loose on a real codebase for a month. Here is what happened.

September 2, 20257 min readBy Henrietta Hatchworth
In shortThe good / The bad / The ugly / The verdict.

1. The good

It was excellent at boilerplate, test generation, and explaining legacy code. Hens saved an average of 40 minutes a day.

2. The bad

It confidently invented an API that did not exist. We caught it in review, which is why we review.

3. The ugly

It did not understand our naming conventions until we told it three times. Then it never forgot.

4. The verdict

Use it, trust it a little, verify it a lot. It is a very enthusiastic junior hen, not a senior rooster.

Written by Henrietta Hatchworth, Founder and CEO. Disagree? Tell us. We read every message, usually before the second coffee.