r/coderabbit

When you think about it, writing code was never really the hard part of this job (or was it?)

The hard part was always figuring out what’s wrong with it. Now that AI is pumping out way more code than before, and most of it looks fine. So naturally you wonder who's actually checking all of that?

Honestly I think as we enter 2027, codegen will be a commodity. We are possibly going to see free IDEs. What teams will actually pay for is whatever catches the mistakes. Anyone can generate code now, the real question is if you can trust it.

Change my mind

At this point, how much of looking productive at work comes down to luck?

Good model that week, good task for an agent, a clean part of the codebase, a reviewer who just approves. It often seems to depend as much on what you got assigned as on skill.

I feel 70-80% of devs can use agents reasonably well now. Most people can prompt, plan and fix what comes back when they get a task the agent is good at.

Is the game becoming more about getting the right tickets at the right time?

Gotta share this because it's honestly been the highlight of my month. Ever since we turned CR I've watched our CTO get 9 comments on a 40 line PR, including one about a null check he "definitely didn't need". He replied to the bot where he actually typed out an argument to a bot. And it politely explained it again.

For years these guys got approved in 10 minutes because nobody wanted to question the person writing their appraisal, while the intern got roasted over variable names. Now the bot treats everyone exactly the same, and it's the funniest thing that has happened on our team.