Merging blindly is bad for you as the owner of the code, LLMs are not that good yet, we’re still finding it make mistales and write slop and our responsibility as engineers is to take ownership and verify it.

The AI reviewers just make this easier for us, I’m not talking about the walls of text it adds as it is exhausting to read (I know) but the fact that it could catch real bugs before you even read the actual code is the benefit, and I’ve integrated this flow into my routine, a loop of a coder and a reviewer taking turns before handing me the results to read myself.

The more I find stuff, the more I improve my own code review skill. And I actually created my initial skill by distilling the code reviews and comments I made myself on github for the past 2 years, training an AI on how I review and give feedback on PRs, that produced a skill that is like another copy of me reviewing the code and refining the code before I read it myself.