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Code Reviews Are Theater — And We All Know It

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There is an old, bitter joke in software engineering that remains painfully true: "A 10-line pull request gets 15 comments. A 500-line pull request gets 'LGTM 👍'." We tell stakeholders that code reviews are our ironclad safety net. We claim they protect production from bugs, enforce security stand…

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  1. 2026-09-25 01:19 · DEV Community — AI
    Code Reviews Are Theater — And We All Know It

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