AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes. The goal shouldn’t be how to remove the gate, but how to make it cheaper to operate.

When you call the humans who keep production safe “the bottleneck” you’re painting a very specific picture. The reviewer as the obstacle. The gate as friction. Something to route around. Cue in the Balrog scene from Lord of the Rings. That picture determines what you build. The tools to remove reviewers look different from tools to support them.

  • ulternoEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Hehe! I have.
    And what took the longest was for me to get used to the dual versioning of QML modules and fixing the UI code that was partially using stuff from both versions.

    Business logic was pretty small for me but that was because other engineers had already written most of it in Maths.