2 posts tagged with "code review"

Agent Mode is fast. You describe a migration, walk away, and come back to a finished answer and a changed project. The answer tells you what the agent says it did. Until now, DevoxxGenie had nothing to show you what it actually did.

That gap had a name: issue #705. The old Git Diff/Merge feature was removed back in 0.4.x because MCP tooling had made it obsolete — and nothing replaced the part people actually missed. A user put it plainly on the closed issue a few days ago:

Was just desperately searching why this feature is not available. Could someone point me in the right direction how to get a diff/merge view for approving changes suggested by an agent?

Fair question. Here's the answer, shipping in v1.13.0.

The system prompt is the most powerful setting in DevoxxGenie and the one nobody touches twice. You write a good one, it works, and then it quietly becomes wrong for half of what you do. The prompt that makes a model a great pair programmer — write the code, be concrete, show me the diff — is exactly the prompt that makes it a mediocre reviewer, because a reviewer that starts rewriting your method has stopped reviewing it.

The usual workaround is to argue with the model in the prompt itself: "don't implement anything, just review". It works about as often as it doesn't.

Personas, new in DevoxxGenie 1.12.0, fix this the boring way: give each role its own system prompt, name it, and put the names in a dropdown.