Re: How the Claude Code team does code review

This is like one of Google’s infrastructure blog. Google scale things are only relevant and appropriate for them. We had lots of bitter lessons from smaller engineering teams following the process with the justification that “this is how Google does it”.

Similarly, Anthropic can afford to do this because they have virtually unlimited tokens and labs to train models for their specific usecase. The rest of us need code comprehension lest we become dependent on continuous supply of tokens (which is a state these labs badly want to achieve)

So, unless you work at a lab, or have unlimited tokens guaranteed through the life of your company, it would do both the company and you good to continue to read the code and not let these 30k PRs per engineer be the norm.

An excerpt from the article makes my point

> Nobody on the team keeps a complete mental model of Claude Code in their head, and we don't think anyone needs to. When someone wants to understand a part of the codebase, they ask Claude to write an explainer for exactly that slice. It takes minutes and reflects the code as it is today.

avinoth, 19 hours ago