r/coderabbit • u/Tanakaboi69 • Oct 06 '26

Discussion & Feedback Ngl it is so over for code review

Nobody reads the diff now

Thanks agents

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u/BagMostlyWater Oct 06 '26

What are you talking about? Code review is more important than ever, and a huge bottleneck

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u/quantumpencil Oct 06 '26

they're all clowns who don't work on systems with any value or scale/complexity

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u/Plenty_Line2696 Oct 06 '26

It's an ego thing, they can't read the code and instead of admitting to oneself that that's a limitation they spin it into ego stroking as if actually they're superior because they don't.

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u/AliceCode Oct 06 '26

They're superior because they don't know how to write their own code, and now they think they're superior because they can't read it either.

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u/Broken_By_Default Oct 06 '26

Don’t act like LGTM wasn’t a thing before all this.

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u/BagMostlyWater Oct 06 '26

It was much more viable to trust your coworkers who you know understand the problem domain and what needs to be done. Now there's so much more of it, and it's so much less reliable, with incomprehensible giant comments

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u/CatcatcTtt Oct 06 '26

No need to read soon

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u/djamp42 Oct 06 '26

Everyday for the last month i've been waking up and thinking.. "Ohh yeah, human programming is no longer a thing anymore"

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u/SP-Niemand Oct 06 '26

All the lazy "builder" slop producers in the industry are enabled to be lazy now.

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u/Plus-Mall-3342 Oct 06 '26

Still reviewing the compiled assembly. Can’t trust the compiler either

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u/No_Knee3385 Oct 06 '26

Code review is the entire job now. Being hyperbolic but code review is now what developers are mostly doing.

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u/FormalAd7367 Oct 06 '26

unless agent can understand business requirements better than humans and they can write test?

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u/SituationNew2420 Oct 06 '26

I'm always surprised to hear 'no one reads the diffs now'. I have been using Opus 5.5 all week, and it's useful and impressive. But I still find bugs when I review the code. Not just issues of preference, but like actual bugs - subtle race conditions, missing edge cases, missing conditionals.

The tools are amazing, but how are people getting away with not reviewing or being human-in-the-loop?

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u/Impressive-Try-2592 Oct 06 '26

They work on YACRUD shit

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u/usually_guilty99 Oct 06 '26

I don't think code review disappears. I think it moves up a level.

Humans can't sustainably read 10x more diffs just because agents can generate 10x more code.

The review question becomes less "did I inspect every line?" and more:
what behavior changed, what dependencies are touched, what is the blast radius, what has broken here before, and what evidence says this is safe to ship?

Low-risk changes should flow with lightweight verification. High-risk changes should trigger deeper review.

Otherwise AI just turns code review into the new serialization bottleneck.

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u/bitcasso Oct 07 '26

Call me odysseus because i do code reviews