#Code-Review

8 posts tagged with #Code-Review

backend-infrastructure · Sep 3 · 11 min

Leave Copilot Approve Off

GitHub now prints a ready-to-approve assessment on every Copilot review. That line is a note. The admin switch that turns it into a required approval is off by default. Keep it off.

software-engineering · Aug 30 · 11 min

Five Things I Refused This Week

A ranked cheat-sheet of five desk rules from this week: who pins the model, what .gitignore does not lock, who merges, who retries, and who still reads the diff.

ai-agents · Aug 29 · 13 min

I Do Not Let a Coding Agent Pick Its Own Model

The agent that writes the diff does not choose the model for that pull request. A named human pins the model before the session starts. Auto is a vendor default, not an owner.

developer-tools · Aug 28 · 12 min

I Do Not Give a Coding Agent Merge Rights

A coding agent may open the pull request. A named human still owns the merge click. Treat GitHub agent merge and auto-merge as opt-in shortcuts, never as the default.

tutorial · Jul 20 · 15 min

Git trailers turn a commit into a handoff contract

Use Git trailers, CI checks, and Git notes to make each commit carry a compact, reviewable handoff record.

developer-tools · Jul 14 · 12 min

A Small Diff Is Not a Small Change: Review AI Patches by Code Entity

A short AI-generated diff can cross validation, request, persistence, and test boundaries. Review the named code entities, the evidence, and the rollback seam—not only the lines that changed.

tutorial · Jul 7 · 15 min

A Repeatable Review Harness for AI-Generated Code After the First Merge Gate

The first merge gate catches obvious AI coding mistakes. A repeatable review harness catches the slower failures: drift, missing rollback paths, weak tests, and agent changes that look fine until production maintenance begins.

ai-agents · Jun 19 · 13 min

Long-Running AI Agents — From Demos to Production

A long-running coding agent can stay green after it changes directory. Production still needs a sandbox that survives /cd, a budget that counts nested work, and a human who owns both.

Also see: #Coding-Agents #Laravel #Vue #Change-Control #Code-Review