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Hey, I’m Matt - a Principal Engineer at AWS, living in Melbourne, Australia . I build things and write up the bits worth keeping.

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Author here. This came out of the last couple of weeks at work, where review has crowded out writing code because teammates and agents both produce it faster than anyone reads it. The short version: review the approach before the lines, and give AI-generated changes less benefit of the doubt, since fluency no longer signals correctness.

I'd try Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B or 27B with a temperature of around 0.6. You'd need to offload some of it to RAM though. I've had okay luck with Gemma 4 12B with a temperature of 1.0 but it will miss things a lot :(