SMRTR ProgrammingMay 24, 2026GitConnected

What Code Reviews Taught Me Over Time

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After reviewing roughly 100 pull requests, clear patterns emerged — most of them not about code quality, but about process and communication. Key lessons include enforcing PR description templates, capping PR size at ~200 lines, and scrutinizing AI-generated code for fake imports, stale patterns, empty catch blocks, and tests that prove nothing. Asking questions instead of giving orders makes reviews faster and kinder.

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