Comment by asdff

Imagine no code review: poof. You still aren't shipping at lightspeed because it still comes down to knowing where to shoot. Oftentimes this is like pulling teeth from various involved stakeholders.

You say small startups would be faster as they won't be doing code review. There's probably always been startups running without bothering with code review for as long as this has been a field. Bad practice? Sure, but all that matters to the business case a lot of the time is just shipping something that works alright, not the greatest piece of efficient code in the world. Moore's law has bought us a lot of slack in that.