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Reviewing AI-written PRs: stop reading diffs, start reading structure

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For a while now, reviewing pull requests has been the hardest part of my week. Not because the code is bad. Most of it reads fine. It's that there's more of it than ever, and much of it was written with AI. The author can produce a 600-line PR in an afternoon. I still have to understand it. Here's…

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  1. 2026-10-20 12:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Reviewing AI-written PRs: stop reading diffs, start reading structure

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