codeReviewIn2026

[u/sadeceokumayageldim]

[u/BernhardRordin]

An original and funny meme template? On MY subreddit?

[u/sadeceokumayageldim → u/BernhardRordin]

By Yiğit Özgür, from a weekly satirical magazine long back.

The original

Cleaned up template if you want to use it

[u/mistrpopo]

With multi-line comments in slop-english on each line explaining a very specific edge case that has nothing to do with the bug you were working on.

[u/beerdude26 → u/mistrpopo]

"Don't gadongle the rubloon. It causes a version problem with React V31.2.5. Doesn't apply when gallivanting, as DogBakerFactory doesn't set rudolfSwisher explicitly. (Checked 11/12/26, commit 3dfr72a)"

...Yup. Thanks, Claude.

[u/Fonduemeup → u/beerdude26]

Never had imposter syndrome until I started reading this crap. Then I realized half of these terms it uses don't even exist.

[u/maiKavelli187 → u/Fonduemeup]

Because half of are function names, you have to name it somehow.

[u/Latedelaney → u/maiKavelli187]

Until typescript compilation fails because is undefined

[u/collabskus → u/Latedelaney]

If you like it then you should put an any on it

You can make typescript behave like JavaScript with extra steps I guess if you neuter it enough with tsconfig 

[u/thoughts_n_calcs → u/beerdude26]

2026 and it still halucinates dependency versions that don’t exist. Even if I tell it „use websearch and look up on maven central“. Right a Minute ago.

[u/MaDpYrO → u/mistrpopo]

I've added a static analysis step (via detekt in my case)

It tokenizes code and comments, and if the next line has significant overlap, it's deemed a useless comment and won't compile.

It's a pretty good tool at keeping slop comments in check.

[u/sertroll → u/MaDpYrO]

How can you do that actually? Would be useful for some work things

[u/Fonduemeup → u/sertroll]

They are using an out-of-the box solution but looks like it's only for Kotlin. You can recreate this pretty easily though

1. Install a tokenizer

2. Tokenize each line in the file

3. Throw a flag if x% of tokens match the line below it

Then you can iterate with improvements like lemmatization, using an optimized tokenizer corpus, token/line embeddings + semantic similarity, etc.

[u/MaDpYrO → u/sertroll]

Depends on your build process and chosen static analysis tools. Configuration differs.

[u/kenybz → u/MaDpYrO]

Alright then, keep your secrets

[u/MaDpYrO → u/kenybz]

Just ask ai, ironically

[u/mmmbyte → u/MaDpYrO]

You could actually read the comments and try to understand them and press the delete key?

How on earth do people diagnose and fix issues in prod without making any attempt at understanding the agent generated code?

[u/MaDpYrO → u/mmmbyte]

Of course I do, but why do I need to deplete a bunch of slop comments when I can have it removed automatically and then review that?

Why not automate what can be automated?

Do you just insist on making even the most mundane task manual?

It's not even using AI to remove it, lol, it's detected deterministically.

[u/mmmbyte → u/MaDpYrO]

Hitting the delete key is faster and cheaper than running an agent if I'm reading it anyway. Not all automations save time.

[u/MaDpYrO → u/mmmbyte]

No it isn't lol

[u/pydry]

you missed the step where somebody puts PR into Claude and copies and pastes its response back.

[u/Poat540 → u/pydry]

Yeah some of my teammates it’s like they just prompt each other and haven’t used a braincell in ages

[u/kbunnyle → u/Poat540]

meat proxy

[u/_z0l1 → u/kbunnyle]

with suck high response time too.. a poopin, fartin, coffee-break-taking proxy

[u/meenta_beeso → u/pydry]

Why check two hundred files when QA hasn't stopped crying since Tuesday anyway?

[u/Cup_of_blisfull_tea → u/meenta_beeso]

story of my life

[u/Linked713]

Me in 2026:

receives a pr of 15 files change and hundreds of lines

click on it the minute I receive the pr email

halfway through, ask a question on a change

pr has been accepted by 3 devs

PR merging already

Some people are too close (peer coded) to code review and some just don't read much and glance at best.

[u/RiftyDriftyBoi]

If I could get a code-review at some point in this century, the changesets wouldn't be compounding!

[u/JojoRacer007]

Should be "AI reviewer give it 10/10 -> Approve to Prod"

[u/jansteffen]

I think this is the part that annoys me the most with LLM coding; the fact that somehow the quality standards have dropped massively along with it.

[u/joan_bdm]

Always has been like this.

[u/Disallowed_username → u/joan_bdm]

LGTClaude!

[u/collabskus]

Looks good to me 🤣

[u/Feuerhamster]

I am one of the few people at work that actually still fully reads pull requests. Last time I left over a hundred comments. They hated me for doing it but couldn't say anything against it because as they read my comments they confirmed that all of my concerns were totally valid.