Category: Code Review
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How to Identify (and Fix) Bottlenecks in Your Review Process
If you lead an engineering team, you’ve probably seen this before: stuck PRs, delayed deploys because no one reviewed the code, and a growing pile of changes waiting for approval. Code review, which should help ensure quality, often becomes a bottleneck—and worse, sometimes no one even notices until it’s too late. This article is an…
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How Code Reviews will look in 2030
Have you ever caught yourself staring at a snippet of AI-generated code, wondering whether it’s worth a detailed review? The short answer: absolutely. Fast-forward to 2030, and code reviews will matter even more than they do today—despite (or maybe because of) AI’s growing presence in our development process. But why? Let’s find out. The Shifting…
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7 reasons to consider AI code review in your workflow
Code review has become a bottleneck. PRs piling up, feedback taking too long, standards being broken without anyone noticing. The bigger the team, the harder it is to keep things consistent and fast without burning out the reviewers. That’s why more and more teams are putting AI at the center of the process. Not to…
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Feedback in Pull Requests: What High-Performing Teams Do Differently
Everyone talks about how important the code review process is for quality. But few people go deep into what really matters — how to give great feedback in a pull request. And more than that: how to receive that feedback without freezing, taking it personally, or turning every PR into an endless debate. If you…
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How to build a strong code review culture
Code review isn’t just about catching bugs. It’s not just about keeping code quality high. A good code review culture is about how a team learns together. How it grows, improves collective quality, and avoids knowledge being stuck with just a few people. If you’re leading an engineering team, you need to see this not…
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What to Prioritize in a Code Review
If you’ve ever been part of a code review, you know the experience can be either great or incredibly frustrating. In an ideal scenario, it’s a process that improves code quality, accelerates team learning, and ensures the software evolves sustainably. But when handled poorly, it can turn into a cycle of irrelevant feedback, unnecessary discussions,…
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Benchmarking Code Reviews: Kody vs. Raw LLMs (GPT & Claude)
Introduction AI-powered IDEs blew up this past year—suddenly, every dev’s got a little robot sidekick. But hey, coding is the fun part. Code reviews? Not so much. That’s where we started wondering: Can large Language Models (LLMs) handle your pull requests? We put the usual suspects (GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.7) up against our pipeline-based…
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The Impact of Code Review on Development Workflow: Balancing Quality and Speed
If you’ve ever waited days for a code review to be approved or felt like your review was just a rubber stamp, you know this process can either be a competitive advantage or a massive bottleneck in development. The challenge is finding the right balance: reviews that are too fast can compromise quality, while overly…
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Guide to Code Review: From Practice to AI Automation
Doing code reviews is essential to ensure code quality, but let’s be honest: it often turns into a bottleneck in the development workflow. The pressure for fast deliveries, combined with the increasing complexity of projects, makes the process slow and, in some cases, even frustrating. With AI stepping in to generate code, things got faster—but…
