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

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.