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by epolanski 26 days ago
I think that coding reviews are no longer feasible as they used to.

The pace and expectations have increased and a human can barely cope with reviewing its own code, let alone colleagues'.

They are not going to disappear in critical aspects of a codebase, nor shouldn't, but the industry will eventually reward self sufficient individuals able to keep the pace, harness and run adversarial reviews against the design and implementation autonomously.

I'll also say the harsh truth. A well implemented adversarial flow will do either better than your peers or will deliver 95% of the value at a fraction of the cost.

The industry has never valued product, let alone code quality except in places they are core to the business.

Otherwise you would not have MIT-bred leetcode ninjas writing react/tailwind bugged monstrosities at half a million/year for billion dollar products.

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How'd that go for the most recent Windows update?