Comment by Aurornis

> As everyone should know by now, it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code.

Lost me here. I would agree that it’s not possible to find every bug by examining code, but in real code reviews bugs and errors are identified by reviewers all the time. Reviewers lend their past experience to the situation, identify some unnoticed interaction, think of an edge case that the author hadn’t considered, or some times just notice simple logic errors.

Code review is a fresh set of eyes. When we write code eventually parts of it get accepted in our minds as done or correct and we can start missing things that are obvious to a reviewer.

I’m not a fan of these blanket declarations that code review isn’t about reviewing code. I’ve read countless hot takes like this that code review is about some other thing (finding unmaintainable code, knowledge transfer, etc) that all miss the point that code review isn’t about one thing. These reductions and exclusions can be really misleading.