Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors: code review is hugely overloaded, validation was never the point
mipsytipsy · x · 2026-08-19
Charity Majors, co-founder & CTO of Honeycomb, argues that "code review" is hugely overloaded: for many people, dropping code review implies you don't want to talk to coworkers or mentor juniors — which isn't true. We've simply bundled too many things into one overloaded tool; some are genuinely good, some could be done better other ways, and some are purely cultural.
Quoting her friend David Poll (now working on pull requests at GitHub): "code review is when we decide, do we want this in our product or not?" — that's the discussion humans are actually good at, and validation was never the most important part.
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