Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.
also, the one i'm hearing which is most insidious is the “AI code/peer review” use-case: that's how you deskill people
but we'll be told that humans are still in the loop! and if they ever were skilled they are actively becoming deskilled by the “AI review”
should be obvious, but zero talk re: it
July 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Reminder: code review is not "to catch mistakes", it is a tool for understanding to limit bus/lottery factor first and foremost. When code is written (if you're lucky) by one human, having the second human abdicate their judgment to the machine is actively harmful to your team's code understanding.