Measure total time, not review time, to judge agentic code reviews
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Santiago (@svpino) argues that developers who celebrate time saved by agentic code reviews should measure the whole development cycle, not just review time.
He says the full cycle includes the review feedback itself, fixing bugs that escape review, and incident handling. He recommends comparing total time per pull request or per change against the pre-agent baseline. His stated goal is to save more time overall without shipping bad code to production.
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Santiago@svpinoXMeasure total time, not review time, to judge agentic code reviewsAISantiago argues that developers celebrating time saved from agent code reviews should measure the whole cycle, including review feedback, fixing bugs that escape review, and incident handling. He recommends comparing total time per PR or per change against the pre-agent baseline. The goal, he says, is to save more time overall without shipping bad code to production.
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