154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews

AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make AI-generated code less sloppy and reviews less painful — review tools, code-review skills, and the still-irreplaceable habit of smoke testing a PR yourself. 

Timestamps

• 0:00 - Intro
• 0:26 - How to not drown in code reviews
• 49:55 - What's Making Us Happy

Links

• Anthropic: Recursive Self Improvement
• Spotify Engineering: Coding is No Longer the Constraint
• CodeRabbit
• Superpowers
• Amelia Wattenberger: how coding used to be how we thought

What's Making Us Happy

• Paige: Chef's Choice Electric Knife Sharpener
• Jack: Cooper's Hawks
• TJ: Acadia National Park

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