Stop Wasting Time on Nitpicks: Automating PR Reviews

We've all been there. You open a Pull Request, and it's 50 files deep. You spend the next hour commenting on indentation, variable naming, and missing docstrings. By the time you're done, you're exhausted.

And that's exactly when the real bugs slip through.

I'm talking about the silent performance killers. The O(n) operation inside a loop. The unconstrained file extraction that becomes a Zip Bomb. The full database reload triggered by a single user action.

These aren't style issues. They are architectural bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities that linter rules can't catch.

The Problem: Noise vs. Signal

I realized that my team was spending 90% of our review time on things that didn't matter, and missing the 10% that actually killed production.

We needed a way to automate the deep inspection—not just "is this line too long?", but "does this function call trigger a full table scan?".

The Solution: Static Analysis for Architecture

I built CodeProt to handle the noise so I can focus on the logic. It uses AST and data-flow analysis to understand what the code is doing, not just what it looks like.

Here is what it catches that standard linters miss:

1. The "Zip Bomb" (DoS Risk)

In a recent analysis of an AI project, we found a file upload handler that extracted archives without checking size limits.

# Vulnerable code pattern
def extract_data(file):
    with zipfile.ZipFile(file) as zf:
        zf.extractall() # No limit check!

This is a classic Denial of Service vector. A tiny 42KB zip file can expand to petabytes. CodeProt flags this immediately, requiring a check on total_uncompressed_size before extraction.

2. The "Full Reload" (Scaling Bottleneck)

We also caught a nasty pattern in a dependency tracking system. Every time a document count changed, the system triggered a full reload of the entire dataset.

// Performance killer
public void update() {
    // Reloads EVERYTHING on every update
    List<Doc> allDocs = database.loadAll(); 
    // ...
}

This works fine with 10 documents. It crashes the system with 10,000. CodeProt identifies these loadAll patterns in high-frequency paths and suggests incremental updates instead.

Stop Reviewing, Start Engineering

Automating these checks has been a game-changer. We no longer waste time on "nitpicks." If the PR is green, we know the basics are solid, and we can focus on the actual design and business logic.

If you're tired of being a human linter, give it a try.

CodeProt is free for open source and individual developers. Let's stop letting performance killers merge.