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Re:Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) by VirusNewbie on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:52PM (#46992319)
> would assume (hope) that code review practices haven't changed inside of Microsoft or Google.

Google engineer perspective:

I'm actually thinking code reviews are one of the lowest hanging fruits for AI here. We have AI reviewers now in addition to the required human reviews, but it can do anything from be overly defensive at times to finding out variables are inconsistently named (helpful) to sometimes finding a pretty big footgun that might have otherwise been missed.

Even if it's not better than a huamn reviwer, the faster turnaround time for some small % of potential bugs is a big productivity boost.

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Re:Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before) by aix1 on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:18AM (#46999511)
> the faster turnaround time for some small % of potential bugs is a big productivity boost

For a balanced perspective, one should also account for the cost of triaging and disregarding AI findinds that aren't useful or actionable.

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