“It’s not ‘Do I read or not read the code.’ It’s “Does my attention get directed to where it’s actually useful?'” 

David Poll, head of GitHub’s Code & Review organization, joins Ankit Jain on the HangarDX podcast to talk about what code review actually does and why it was never really about catching bugs.

Why code review is really a taste problem, not a correctness problem, and
How PRDs, architecture docs, and design reviews are collapsing into the code review process,
Why we might be headed toward a world with 20x more unmerged PRs,
How teams can extract review decisions into institutional memory to beat AI slop with AI, about
The sliding scale of not reading code and what determines where your team should land

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