Oh, you work at Anthropic?
Pardon the snark, but they literally wrote an article [1] about giving up on code reviews because they push 30k _changes_ (I assume that means commits, but they don’t clarify), and were bottlenecked on reviews.
Instead, they claim to just review the _intent_ of the PR and presume correctness will be caught by more AI.
To me, the more absurd part is that they’re pushing that much code.
To put it in perspective:
Software # Commits Equiv. Time
--—----- --------- -----------
Nginx 8,758 7h
uv 11,081 9h
Vim 24,608 20h
Go 67,914 2.3d
Git 82,513 2.8d
VS Code 168,140 5.6d
Emacs 183,611 6.1d
Rust 343,063 11.4d
* Equiv time equals the amount of time it would take Anthropic to push that many commits, given their 30k changes/day estimate provided in the article linked below.It generated some interesting discussions here on hacker news [2] [3].
1: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-con...
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633
3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118863
FYI: The last is a blog post at simonwilliamson.net about the source post, which was flagged appropriately, but I left since it had a few dozen comments as well.
