[gthrowaway52]

Well, yes, the menial parts of review can and should be automated. Big tech cos are leading the industry, and ML does find its way in there (with mixed success).

But at its core, code review is putting two heads together to write some code instead of one. In that sense you can think of the code review problem as the "automating away all of programming" problem.

[proc0]

Fair point, and to that extent reviews can still be useful. However many code changes are small, bug fixes, or straight forward changes, so the main benefit would still be the same. There could be an option to wait for human reviews if needed.