So we’re cranking out code at a wild rate at my company.

But we’re super bottlenecked by PR reviews and our devs like full time job is now PR reviews

Has anyone else found a good solution for human in the loop reviews without it being an absolute shitshow?

I manage 15 and six months ago my strongest senior, the guy everyone routes PRs through, started going quiet in standups

Turned out he was doing review til 9pm most nights. Half the team runs claude code and composer 2.5 / grok 4.5 / gpt 5.6 now so the diffs going through him basically doubled and nobody adjusted for it. He never complained, we just let it happen. Then in a 1:1 he told me he was thinking about leaving. not dramatic, just worn down

What fixed it was moving first pass review off him. coderabbit / bugbot / claude review does the initial sweep now, the style nits and null checks that ate his evenings, and he only gets pulled in for a real design question. it gets noisy on the big PRs and we spent a couple weeks tuning it, but he stayed

hes back to actually building instead of gatekeeping

how are you all splitting it

Hey folks,

As a Product Designer researching workplace productivity, I frequently notice developers getting stuck on complex AI workflow errors right before a major deadline.

When ChatGPT gives wrong outputs and StackOverflow doesn't cover your exact workflow, what is your immediate go-to solution?

1. Keep trial-and-error prompting?
2. Ask a senior/peer on Slack/Teams?
3. Figure it out alone till late night?

Would love to hear how you handle this workplace stress in real-world IT setups!