Ask HN: Will human code review still exist a year from now?
5 changisaac 12 8/9/2025, 7:04:02 AM
Hi HN, edgy thought, seeing a lot traction and usage of code review bots lately across both startups and medium/larger companies. Whether it's CodeRabbit, Graphite Diamond, etc. (there are plenty more).
If models keep improving, and we eventually inject these code review bots with more and more context to validate even things like business logic, tribal knowledge, etc. do you think we could eventually arrive very soon in a place where we no longer do traditional code reviews?
Just work with your coding agent to develop things, get it reviewed by a code review bot, fix any issues caught, and ship.
I guess that they are moderately useful for finding copy-paste errors.
Depends on how good your code is :-).
(i'm the lead engineer on diamond)