AI Code Review Without the Theatre

AI Code Review Without the Theatre I've been running LLM-powered code reviews on our team...

sabato 4 luglio 2026 New tab

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I've been running LLM-powered code reviews on our team for three months now, and the honest take: it's saved us from shipping bugs, but only because we stopped using it wrong.

Here's what most teams get wrong with AI code review, and how to actually make it work.

The Dumb Way (That Everyone Tries First)

You paste your PR into Claude or ChatGPT and ask "review this code." Then you get back a wall of generic advice: "Consider adding error handling. Make variable names more descriptive. Add docstrings."

AI Code Review Without the Theatre

AI Code Review Without the Theatre

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