Category: Code Review
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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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AI Code Review: 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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Code Review: From Practice to AI Automation
Code review is still one of the most important steps to keep software quality high. But let’s be honest: it often becomes a bottleneck in the development flow. The pressure to ship fast, combined with growing project complexity, makes the process slow — and sometimes, just frustrating. AI sped up coding. But it also brought…
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The Most Common Code Review Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
The code review process is a crucial part of the development cycle, yet it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Some code review practices end up causing more harm than good. Small missteps can turn code reviews into a frustrating experience for both the reviewer and the developer submitting the code. In this post,…
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Impact of Lack of Coding Standard on Code Review
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from studying code reviews and talking to engineering teams, it’s that most of them don’t have a clear style guide or well-defined guidelines for code reviews. It might seem like a small thing, but it creates a massive ripple effect. Without a coding standard, every dev just follows what…
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How AI in Code Review reduces Technical Debt
The debate around technical debt is nothing new, but it’s more relevant now than ever. With teams constantly under pressure to deliver faster results, the risk of accumulating debt grows exponentially. Technical debt isn’t just about cutting corners in code—it’s about the systemic consequences of those decisions over time. The good news? Artificial Intelligence tools…
