Code-Review

I use this code review checklist for tech leads to reduce false confidence and catch production-grade bugs: idempotency, timeout propagation, auth boundaries, and unsafe retries.

I ran the same 612-line TypeScript PR through five AI review agents to see which ones actually reduce reviewer workload. Two were consistently useful, two were mostly noisy, and one missed the highest-risk issue entirely. If you’re a tech lead choosing review tooling, this is the practical tradeoff breakdown.

A practical guide to using AI for code review — what actually works, what doesn’t, and where human judgment still matters.