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Re:How to Kill the Code Review by swyx on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:36PM (#47278252)
came here from f5 bot - hi I edited this piece! it’s riiight at the tip of outrageous but not totally insane. which as I look at my own coding evolution over the past few months, is increasingly likely even if I’m not there yet. my main realization is that the SDLC is slowwwly breaking down- first with no human coding and people sending in prompt requests than pull requests. once we figure out the ai replacement for reviews, the software logjam breaks.
Re:How to Kill the Code Review by bmd1905 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:42AM (#47284842)
Moving away from the traditional, bottleneck-heavy code review cycle requires immense trust in your CI/CD pipeline and test coverage. You don't necessarily "kill" the review; you delegate the tedious parts—like catching security regressions or performance bugs—to intelligent agents. We designed CloudThinker to handle that baseline automatically, letting developers merge faster with built-in guardrails rather than waiting on a teammate's LGTM.