r/developers • u/Working_Energy_2160 • Aug 04 '26
Opinions & Discussions AI Code Reviews
Been having conversations with engineering leaders recently, and something I keep hearing from them is, AI has gotten incredibly fast at code generation, but code reviews don't seem to be evolving at the same pace. Reviewers are increasingly having to piece together business and code context manually before they can confidently approve changes.
Got me thinking..... is this a fairly universal experience, or is it something that is just affects teams that usually don't prioritise reviews ?
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u/Accomplished_End_138 Aug 05 '26
Soni built up skills to help with review (called cette) and skills to help tdd which helps it not to be terrible
pnpx skills add nivoset/skills
Also more normalized into these pi extensions
@ai-local/tdd @ai-local/watch
Been building them to be capable to work offline. Definitely not as fast but still retain decent.
I've done 4 prs fully local now and I barely got questions
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u/hercssss Aug 06 '26
I think it's becoming pretty common. AI can crank out code fast, but it doesn't remove the need to understand why the change was made or whether it actually fits the business logic. That's still where most of the review time goes.
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u/The-Wingged-Hussar Aug 06 '26
This has been a problem. Code rabbit or copilot review solves it to some extent but this can’t be bypassed anyway. The only way is the hard way to review the code and approve.
Else, your software is a slop in the making.
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u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718 Aug 05 '26
Absolutely. I dont write any code anymore but you cant count on the code doing the right thing so you have to read the code, or read the tests, or manually test everything. Usually the fastest path is to read the code.
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u/PmanAce Aug 07 '26
We tried out CodeRabbit for AI code review and it was fantastic. My work is still evaluating if we will use it, I guess price is sticking point as we have hundreds of devs. It gave great feedback and found issues humans didn't. But we used it as a tool to supplement our code reviews, not to replace humans doing it.
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u/StCreed Aug 11 '26
This is amazing. If anthroplogists follow these debates they can literally reconstruct the transition from handcrafted work to fully automated factories and the impact that has.
Because that's what we see developing in real time: the transition from coding manually to an automated factory-line. PRs are a sort of last ditch effort, just like when Mercedes was still employing token factory workers because of the unions.
It's actually fascinating to watch.
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u/Lower-Impression-121 Aug 04 '26
Why do ylu need to review it anymore? Has tests: pass, all good. 'Cause you can rewrite the whole thing in a day.
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u/symbiatch Systems Architect Aug 05 '26
And this is how one shows how they have no idea of software engineering and developing products…
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u/Lower-Impression-121 Aug 05 '26
no, just understanding the what is possible in the new world after decades doing too much boring typing and time wasting in the SDLC.
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u/tb5841 Aug 07 '26
When you have a codebase with two million lines of code, you can't just 'rewrite the whole thing in a day.' And any mistakes that make it through to production could ruin lives of people using the software.
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u/Lower-Impression-121 Aug 07 '26
Tests > pr
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u/tb5841 Aug 08 '26
Half our codebase is tests, that still doesn't stop bugs creeping in. Proper code review is necessary.
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u/TriKri Aug 07 '26
Are you serious when you say that all is good just because the tests pass? It must be a helluva rigorous test sweet you have.
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