How AI Code Review Tools Fit Into a Dev Workflow

AI code review tools are effective at catching common issues like unused variables, obvious security patterns, and style inconsistencies before a human reviewer even looks at the pull request.

They are less reliable at judging whether a change fits the broader system architecture or business logic, which is why we treat them as a first pass rather than a replacement for human review.

On our own engineering teams, AI review runs automatically on every pull request, which speeds up the human review that follows rather than replacing it.