It seems that people feel code review is a cost, but time spent writing code is not a cost because it feels productive.

I don't think that's quite it - review is a recurring cost which you pay on every new PR, whereas writing code is a cost you pay once.

If you are continually accumulating technical debt due to an over-enthusiastic junior developer (or agent) churning out a lot of poorly-conceived code, then the recurring costs will sink you in the long run

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damnitbuilds 19 hours ago | parent [-]

"review is a recurring cost which you pay on every new PR, whereas writing code is a cost you pay once."

Huh ? Every new PR is new code which is a new cost ?

	▲	swiftcoder 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Every new PR is new code which is a new cost ? Every new PR interacts with existing code, and the complexity of those interactions increases steadily over time