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We use AI code review and it is genuinely helpful, but I agree it's mostly just making my life easier to review my own PR by pointing out salient points I would otherwise not really think about.

This obviously is not a replacement for another human looking at your code, and I would not do it in safety critical environments, but it really helps especially in small teams where time is precious and you ship fast.

My only issue is that I would love a dedicated UI where I get this review BEFORE another human looks at the code, so their feedback is not drowned by the AI noise

I think the part I find most interesting about this is the potential power implications. Ternary models may perform better in terms of RAM and that's great, but if you manage to build a multiplication-free accelerator in silicon, you can start thinking about running things like vision models in < 0.1W of power.

This could have insane implications for edge capabilities, robots with massively better swarm dynamics, smart glasses with super low latency speech to text, etc.

I think the biggest technical hurdle would be simulating the non linear layers in an efficient way, but you can also solve that since you already re-train your models and could use custom activation functions that better approximate a HW efficient non linear layer.