Your Team Is Getting Faster at Code Review. Your Seniors are Drowning.
Every so often I go read code that's shipped in our platform. Not to review it (that ship has already sailed)...just to see where the system is drifting. Lately I've been finding a lot of issues. Not nitpicks or code style issues. I mean infrastructure and functional problems that are hurting how our application performs and how far it can scale. After sitting and thinking on this (and doing some…
The team's efficiency at code review has increased since the introduction of agents, but the quality of the code being produced has deteriorated. The rise in volume of code generated by agents led to a slowdown in the review process. The team has remained committed to reviewing the code, despite the increased workload, but the code quality has suffered as a result.
The issue lies in the review model, which does not take into account the increased volume and risk associated with the code generated by agents. The model treats all pull requests as equally important, leading to a thinning of attention and an inability to identify high-risk changes. Merge Lantern is being developed to address this problem by ranking open pull requests based on the amount of risk they carry, allowing senior engineers to focus their attention on the changes that need it most.
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