My AI code reviewer is nicer than my coworkers — and that worries me
🩺 Summary
I submitted a PR with a pretty messy refactor. My human teammates took 3 days to comment — and the comments were rough. I fed the same diff to an AI tool. Got instant line-by-line feedback in 10 seconds, polite and constructive.
📝 Details
I ran the experiment three more times with different PRs. Each time: AI was faster (seconds vs days), more thorough (caught edge cases humans missed), and dramatically more polite.
But here’s the thing: AI review is great at *local* correctness. It struggles with *contextual* judgment. What scares me is not that AI will replace code review. It’s that teams might start relying on AI review *first* and human review *never*.
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