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> The up-front cost of code review can be easily be tripled or quadrupled when it’s distributed over several weeks

You’re taking a more extreme position than the one I’m stating. You can review every day or every hour if you want.

> a deliberate bottleneck in the earlier stage

Wouldn’t it be better if we could catch bugs AND avoid the bottleneck? That’s the vision. Good intentions may disagree about how to accomplish that.



To catch bugs and avoid the bottleneck that is code review, you’re just moving the bottleneck to some point after merging the code, not before.

Like it or not you still have to stop what you’re doing to identify a bug and then fix it, which takes time away from planned feature work. You’re not optimising anything, you’re just adding fragility to the process.

As I said before, an issue localised to a PR in review blocks one person. An issue that has spread to staging or prod blocks the entire team.




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