[dkersten]

Not just thrown out, but also the customer relations when the bugs affect customers, the investigation to find the cause of the bugs, the migrations to fix any bad/corrupted data because of the bugs. Code review is a far cheaper way to catch errors, bad code, footguns and places where bugs might creep in than letting them into production and having them impact customers. Code reviews also help keep code tidier and cleaner which makes future understanding and changes easier. Small companies can’t afford to omit code reviews.