Comment by benrutter

Interesting take! Personally I'd never throw out code review, for a couple reasons.

1. It's easy to optimise for talented, motivated people in your team. You obviously want this, and it should be the standard, but you also want it to be the case that somebody who doesn't care about their work can't trash the codebase.

2. I find even people just leaving 'lgtm' style reviews for simple things, does a lot to make sure folks keep up with changes. Even if there's nothing caught, you still want to make sure there aren't changes that only one person knows about. That's how you wind up with stuff like, the same utility functions written 10 times.