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Why AI will never replace human code review
It needs to be said: AI can’t fully replace human code review. Not now, and likely not ever.
Just open a new tab, type “AI code review” into Google, and you’ll find everything from small experimental side-projects to large enterprise solutions promising to "revolutionize how teams ship software." It highlights some good parts, flags a couple of potential issues, and stamps it with some general suggestions like, “You might want to handle edge cases.” But you and I both know: shipping that to production based solely on an AI’s sign-off is a poor practice. But it can’t replicate that collaborative push-and-pull where a senior engineer might say, “Hey, we don’t do that pattern here because we learned the hard way it doesn’t scale.” Or, “We found that approach fails in Production traffic spikes.” AI might highlight an inefficiency, but it won’t jump on a video call (or a whiteboard) to hash out an alternative architecture with you for an hour.
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