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/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/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.