Comment by kasey_junk

It’s probably important to define what sort of code review you are talking about when making broad claims about it.

GitHub style asynchronous pull request review with inline comments is the norm now, but it’s not the only sort of review there is. I’m old enough to remember processes that include in person reviews that were more like a dissertation defense or conference presentation.

The literature around this that shows that code review is a useful quality practice (in fact one of the only useful quality practices) comes mostly from much more structured review processes than we see now.

My personal opinion is that before llms the GitHub style pr review was for making us feel better about our processes (or governance checkbox checking) and the age of llms will sweep them away as the cost/benefit is so much worse now.