How Code Reviews are Changing with AI 🔍
Reflections and predictions on the future of code reviews, taking inspiration from the CodeRabbit success.
There is no shortage of articles online about the future of software development and AI. I am guilty of that too 🙋♂️
Most articles, however, only focus on AI coding. They ponder about a hypothetical future where AI may or may not write all of our code, engineers become AI managers, or they keep coding but do so 100x faster.
The tools themselves, when you look at the big names — Cursor, Windsurf (just insanely acquired by OpenAI), Lovable, etc — seem to be all about coding. Or vibe-coding.
Now, if you ask me, that future might materialize one day, but that day is not today. Vibe-coding only goes so far, and both my own experiments (will write more in an upcoming article!) and those of my friends are falling kind of short of our expectations.
But coding is only a part of the development process, and it turns out there are other parts where, perhaps more quietly, AI is making a real dent, and it feels like the future is already here.