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Well said, you’re absolutely right. In practice code review is orders of magnitude faster than code creation and it always has been, baffling anyone is arguing otherwise. Perhaps they’ve never worked in a real organisation, or they’ve only worked on safety critical code,m or something?

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Sometimes code review is so fast it's literally instant (because people aren't actually reading the code).

I think it's one of those sort of, dunno, wink wink situations where we all know that doing real in depth code reviews would take way more time than the managers will give (and generally isn't worth it anyways) so we just scan for obvious things and whatever happens to interact with our particular speciality in the code base.

I’ve rarely seen this happen personally but it does happen from time to time. Even thorough code reviews don’t take anywhere near as long as the writing though.

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