Code Review
topic on 6 shows · 12 statements across 12 episodes
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12 statements about Code Review, every show
Slack says Amp eliminated mandatory pre-merge code reviews since day one
“Mandatory code review before it gets to main. Yeah, it's dead. It's been dead ever since we started working on AMP.”
Gaybrick: AI Agents Review Code Better Than Humans Did
“But even then agents are doing code review even better than humans did before.”
Jain: Engineering bottleneck has shifted from writing code to reviewing it
“The real bottleneck has shifted from The person writes the code to personalize the review.”
Check specs into repositories so AI reviews can enforce coding standards
“Any time you have like a statement of what good looks like. Get that into the repo, and then code review can make sure it's still matching what you set up to do.”
Mike: AI agent loops only work in constrained feedback environments
“The only place a loop makes sense is in a very confined, constrained process with a very fixed feedback loop, a very defined feedback loop, and that's in code review.”
Lauritsen: Code review should focus on architecture and security, not lines of code
“No one wants to look at the, all the lines of code. It's like, what's important is, what are the, what's the impact on systems architecture? What's the impact on systems design, stability security boundaries? How does it sort of take our system in the right di…”
Stay Sassy PM: Managing multiple AI agents exhausts engineers reviewing critical code
“One of the things that people quietly talk about is that that's very fatiguing. And I know some people who are operating that way. I've met these people and it is fatiguing. And what is fatigue really going to hit you on? Fatigue is really gonna hit you when n…”
Lopopolo: OpenAI Frontier team operates with post-merge or zero human code review
“You know, we, we've moved beyond even the humans reviewing the code as well. Most of the human review is post merge at this point, but it's not even reviewed.”
Emberikos: Writing code is now trivial; code review is the main underinvested bottleneck
“Code gen writing code has become, like, you know, basically trivial now. But the hard part is, like, what you were talking about with, like, code review, right? Like, how do we know the code quality is good? How do we know we're doing the right things? And tho…”
Rachitsky: The main challenge with AI coding is code review, not writing
“Cause this is one of the things that comes up a lot in this podcast is writing code is now so easy. The main challenge people have is reviewing the code that AI has written.”
Taylor: Supervising AI agents turns 90% accuracy into 99% accuracy
“I think this idea of self, self-reflection and agents is really important. Having AI supervise the AI is actually very effective. Just think about it this way. If you produce an AI agent that's right, 90% of the time, that's not that great, but how hard would …”
Bartram: Evaluating engineer skill from large codebases is startlingly difficult
“It's actually, it's startlingly hard to look at a big bit of code and decide if you think the programmer who wrote it is skilled. Just again, like, there's so much context, you can't tell what bugs they spend hours over, like, finding, like, finding bugs, like…”