[backwardsponcho]

And five engineers reviewing 20 thousand LoCs would get the job done in ten days, but both numbers are just as BS when it comes to actually understanding the codebase. No one is comprehensively reading 5k lines per day for a month straight.

[roblh]

Seriously, “just review 5k lines a day for a month” is the most out of touch manager suggestion I’ve seen in a hot minute. As though you only need to read each line one single time in a review before magically committing its exact purpose, content, and overall implications to memory. The absurdity of which is multiplied for AI generated code which, based on what I see from my coworkers, is clunkier and weirder and less focused even than regular human code, on average.

[TheCoreh]

This is not a regular code review of new code. The original code still exists, and is sitting side by side, just in a different language.

You'd be just looking at both files, side by side, to make sure nothing was lost in translation or newly introduced.