How is AI changing code review?

Sagnik Nandy

Chief Technology Officer · Docusign

Auto‑generating PRs

Sagnik Nandy says AI coding agents create a PR and send it over, after which engineers can review it and ask for more changes, and GitHub code owners must approve and merge it.

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Gautam Korlam

Principal Engineer · Sonar

First‑pass automated reviews

Gautam Korlam says AI is changing code review by enabling first-pass automated reviews, so humans aren't doing every single review; without that, reviewers become the bottleneck.

Michael Jenkins

C.T.O. · Threatlocker

First filter

Michael Jenkins says using AI to review AI code can be a good first filter, but he argues it still needs a solid peer review by a developer, whether AI or human, for all code.

Venkat Venkataramani

VP, App Infra · Openai

Agentic code reviews

Venkat Venkataramani says the way code review is done today makes less and less sense, and that agentic code reviews are now emerging to examine code changes through several lenses — making it possible for infrastructure and security engineers to review every change.

Will Bond

Staff Software Engineer · Uber

Automating approvals

Will Bond says AI is moving code review toward a percentage of code landing automatically with automatic approvals, and notes parts of the industry are already moving there.

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Anders Hejlsberg

Technical Fellow · Microsoft

More ergonomic reviewing

Anders Hejlsberg says code review can be made more ergonomic than it is today, with AI potentially helping by explaining what the changes are.

Zach Lloyd

Founder / CEO · Warp

Shifting bottleneck upward

Zach Lloyd says that as agents produce code at volume, the bottleneck shifts to review—currently the biggest one—and he’s tackling it with computer-use verification and better specing so agents check spec adherence.

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Jarred Sumner

Creator of Bun · Anthropic

Automated and improved

Jarred Sumner says code review needs to be really good and automated, and he finds Claude's code review really good because it catches bugs that would take him an hour of close reading, though it's expensive.