AI tools eroding code review: team reads only 5% of PRs
Upset-Day9099 · reddit · 2026-08-30
The author's team merged 214 PRs last month but only properly read about 12. The rest were approved after skimming summaries and glancing at tests. Review capacity failed to scale with output.
Tooling made it weirder: Coderabbit catches enough real bugs to make trusting it feel rational, but that trust is exactly why they read less every month. The author wonders where this lands—reviewing only auth/money paths? Nothing? They draw a parallel to compilers replacing hand-checked assembly and ask where other teams draw the line today.
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