[hinkley]

A martial arts instructor does not tell you everything you're doing wrong on the first day. You would quit. And justifiably so. What an asshole.

You know you've progressed in their eyes every time they start bugging you about something new. You didn't suddenly become worse at something. Rather you got good enough on some higher priority thing that they knocked it off the list and replaced it with the next item in the backlog.

You should treat code reviews similarly. It's a journey, and we are in the middle. If you keep making the same comments on reviews, eventually they'll get addressed beforehand and you can point out something else.