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Claude Code team shifts code review to continuous AI-assisted checks

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Members of Anthropic's Claude Code team described how they rethought code review, moving from a final human gate to continuous AI-assisted checks with Claude before human review. They argue that 'did a human read the code?' is an imprecise proxy for identifying potential issues, and that most changes are now reviewed and fixed by Claude at least once before human scrutiny, freeing attention for higher-level questions.

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    Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang

    We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?" Asking that question also changed when review happens. Before, review was a gate at the end of the road: write the code, open a PR, wait for your colleague. Now, review runs continuously, more like spellcheck while you write. Most changes have been reviewed and fixed by Claude at least once before a human is asked to look. This catches most routine mistakes, and saves team attention for higher-level questions and scrutiny. — Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang , How the Claude Code team does code review Tags: anthropic , claude , ai , claude-code , llms , addy-osmani , coding-agents , generative-ai , agentic-engineering , code-review

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