🔗 What I look for in AI-assisted PRs

I review a lot of PRs these days. As the job of a PR author becomes easier with AI, the job of a PR reviewer gets harder.¹

AI can “assist” with code review, but I’m less optimistic about AI code review than AI code generation. Sure, Claude/Codex can be quite helpful as a first pass, but code review still requires a large amount of human taste.²

I care about the high level abstractions my team uses in our codebase, and about how the pieces fit together. I care that our codebase can be intuitively understood by new team members. I care that code is tamper-resistant – that we build things robustly such that imperfect execution in the future doesn’t cause something to blow up. Systems should be decomposable. You should be able to fit all the components of