Make Your Code Review Agent Write Down How the Bug Actually Happens
I wrote it together with an AI agent: I set the structure, the agent drafted, and I checked and rewrote the final text. The review agent that quadrupled my code I asked an agent to implement a feature. It should have been about 1,000 lines. When I looked again, it was over 4,000. The implementation agent wrote it. The review agent made it grow. I run a personal project where development is fully…
A code review agent was introduced to an automated development process. The review agent, however, expanded the codebase unnaturally, adding layers of defense for unrealistic scenarios. By requiring the review agent to provide concrete failure scenarios for each finding, the issue was resolved. Findings that could not be expressed as "input or state → execution path → failed result" were discarded, ensuring that only realistic problems were addressed.
This approach effectively limited the scope of the code review agent and improved the quality of the codebase.
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