Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by yxhuvud on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:20AM (#47409600)

Which is a thing that depend very much on team culture. In my team it is perhaps 15 min for smaller fixes to get signoff. There is a virtuous feedback loop here - smaller PRs give faster reviews, but also more frequent PRs, which give more frequent times to actually check if there is something new to review.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by christophilus on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:23AM (#47410313)

Does your team just context switch all the time? That sounds like a terrible place to work.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by sn0wleppard on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:50AM (#47410514)

Similar in my team and I don't feel like there's much context switching. With around 8 engineers there's usually at least one person not in the middle of something who can spare a few minutes.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by g947o on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @09:29AM (#47412376)

How can everyone be familiar with everybody else's work?

Usually at most 2-3 engineer have enough context to fully understand what your code is doing.

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Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower by workmandan on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @06:11AM (#47410659)

If I'm deep in coding flow the last thing I'm going to do is immediately jump on to someone else's PR. Half a day to a day sounds about right from when the PR is submitted to actually getting the green light

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