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by niros_valtos 19 days ago
We hit this too, and what helped wasn't more reviewers. We pushed the trivial checks (style, obvious bugs, secret and other deterministic scanning) onto automation so humans only look at intent and design, and the trap to avoid is letting AI both write and "review" the code, since you want the review signal independent of what generated it. There is another way we are experimenting these days too - building a gauge of how much a human in the loop is needed based on our confidence on the changes AI analyzes.
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Do you mind sharing how you implanted the trivial checks? Did you spin up your own agent? Also how are determining what is trivial or not?

This is the clearest actionable thing I’ve heard of so far, so it would be good to understand the specifics