What are code reviews even for?
Engineering Enablement 3 weeks ago 13 ● 2 sources
AI coding tools at Meta and across the industry are generating code 106% faster than human reviewers can evaluate it, with review backlogs swelling into thousands of pending diffs. The core problem isn't defect detection—which accounts for only 14% of review comments—but knowledge transfer and shared understanding, which automated review threatens to erode into cognitive and intent debt. Organizations should use AI to automate only low-risk routine changes while protecting human review for high-judgment decisions that build team expertise and ownership.