I’m building an AI PR reviewer for solo devs and small teams — what would make you actually use it vs uninstall it after one noisy review?
I’ve been building an AI-powered PR/code review assistant focused more on small teams and solo developers than enterprise workflows.
The main thing I’m trying to avoid:
- noisy comments
- obvious suggestions
- “AI hallucination reviews”
- slowing developers down instead of helping
The idea is to make reviews feel:
- context-aware
- lightweight
- actionable
- low-noise
Some things I’m exploring:
- detecting actual risky changes instead of commenting everywhere
- learning repo conventions
- prioritizing security/performance issues over style nitpicks
- summarizing PR risk before deep review
- reviewer personality/tone controls
For people who’ve tried tools like Copilot reviews, CodeRabbit, Bito, etc:
What made you keep using them?
And what made you disable them?
Would genuinely love brutal feedback before I overbuild the wrong thing.