Code Review
13 guides tagged “Code Review”.
- What Is an Automated Security Review (and What Does It Miss)? An automated security review reads a diff against known vulnerability classes. It finds patterns, not absent features, and it needs triage.
- How to Review a 2,000-Line AI Pull Request Review in passes: intent and scope, then risky surfaces, then tests, then the diff. Do not read a large change top to bottom.
- How to Set a Pull Request Size Budget for AI Agents Give the agent a files-and-lines budget before it starts, enforce it in CI, and split by concern when it is exceeded.
- How to Use an AI Code Reviewer Without Trusting It Run AI review as a filter for specific defect classes, verify every finding against the code, and keep the approve decision with a human.
- What Is a Review Packet (and Why Agents Should Produce One)? A review packet is the evidence an agent hands over with a change: intent, decisions, risks, and how to verify it. It makes review possible at speed.
- What Is Risk-Based Code Review? Risk-based review sends scrutiny where a mistake is expensive: authorization, data, money, and irreversible operations. Everything else gets lighter checks.
- Why Is Code Review the Bottleneck in Agentic Coding? Agents produce code faster than teams can read it, so the constraint moves from writing to reviewing, and unreviewed code is not an asset.
- Working With AI Coding Agents: The Complete Workflow From Prompt to Production Choosing an agent, writing specs it can follow, reviewing its diffs, and debugging what you didn't write. Every guide in the AI coding workflow, in one place. 30+ linked guides.
- The 15 Security Failures Your AI Coding Assistant Ships by Default AI coding assistants default to SQL injection, hardcoded secrets, missing access controls, and 12 other security failures. Here's every one, with the fix and the linked guide.
- What Should You Actually Look For in a Code Review? A code review checks correctness, security, readability, and tests — in that order. Learn the checklist that catches real problems, not just style.
- What Is a Code Smell? A code smell is a surface clue that deeper problems lurk in the code — like duplicated logic or a function doing too much. Learn the common smells.
- What Makes a Codebase "AI-Friendly"? An AI-friendly codebase gives agents clear conventions, modular files, and tests so they make fewer mistakes. Learn the traits that make AI coding work.
- How to Review AI-Generated Code Like a Senior Engineer A practical checklist for reviewing AI-generated code: correctness, security, edge cases, and intent. Review what the assistant skips, not just what it wrote.