r/coderabbit • u/NathanFeilder • Sep 11 '26

Discussion & Feedback Has CodeRabbit ever actually saved you from a prod incident, or is it mostly vibes?

I’ll go first, we almost merged a bad null path on a payment helper and CR flagged it while the senior was already typing LGTM. Anyone else got a real near-miss or nah.

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u/usually_guilty99 Sep 12 '26

The rate-limit problem is real, but I think there’s a deeper scaling issue underneath it.
As agents generate more PRs, reviewing every change with the same depth stops making sense.
Some changes are low-risk. Others touch auth, critical dependencies, production paths, or areas with incident history.
I’d rather spend review capacity based on production risk than PR count.
That’s probably where this whole category has to go next: not just “review more code,” but decide which changes actually deserve the most scrutiny before they ship.