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The Best AI Code Review Tool for VS Code: A Hands-On Look at Qodo 🔥

Have you ever generated code using AI in an IDE, deployed it to production, and noticed bugs you hadn't seen before? Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

With the development of artificial intelligence, debugging is becoming easier, on the one hand, and more difficult, on the other. You're too lazy to double-check your code. And why bother, when AI is so advanced today? This is the main problem. On the client's side, they don't care about your code, but they do care about the functionality. And if it's logically incorrect because you mistyped the prompt, that's the error.

To help you reduce code review costs, I present to you a popular tool that uses AI to check your code and make it significantly better. It's Qodo.

Well, let's get started! 🏎️


👀 What is Qodo?

Qodo is the AI code review platform that catches bugs early, reduces review noise, and helps maintain code quality across fast-moving, AI-driven development.

Qodo Plugin

The plugin has a huge number of reviews (more than 490) and has a rating (4.5 out of 5), is constantly being improved and you can definitely have confidence in it.

💎 Check out Qodo ☆


🔍 How the Review Agent Suite works?

Before starting work, you will need to be registered after downloading. This process is fast and you can use the 14-day free period, or if you want more, you can buy a subscription. In my opinion, it is inexpensive.

1. Clicking the install button

Installation

2. Login or register for an account

Sign in

3. Click on the Qodo tab

Sidebar

If everything worked, you'll see the following image in the sidebar. Let's try generating some code and reviewing it using the Qodo Plugin.

function sortAscending(arr) {
  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
    for (let j = 0; j < arr.length - 1; j++) {
      if (arr[j] < arr[j + 1]) {
        arr[j] = arr[j + 1];
      }
    }
  }
  return arr;
}

let array = [5, 2, 9, 1, 7, 3];
console.log(sortAscending(array)); // [1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9]
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I created a simple array sorting function, but due to a misspelled prompt, it doesn't work properly. This could cause bugs in the client side of the site, which isn't ideal for us. Let's try reviewing it using Qodo now.

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A notification will appear in VS Code that we can click to review the code. You can review both the committed changes and those currently on your computer. Qodo immediately identified the bugs in my code and suggested a pre-emptive solution, as well as a solution using popular AI agents.

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+function sortAscending(arr) {
+  for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
+    for (let j = 0; j < arr.length - 1; j++) {
+      if (arr[j] < arr[j + 1]) {
+        arr[j] = arr[j + 1];
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return arr;
+}
+
+let array = [5, 2, 9, 1, 7, 3];
+console.log(sortAscending(array)); // [1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9]
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A notification will appear in VS Code that we can click to review the code. You can review both the committed changes and those currently on your computer. Qodo immediately identified the bugs in my code and suggested a pre-emptive solution, as well as a solution using popular AI agents.

Moreover, this plugin is available not only for VS Code, but also for Cursor and many other popular IDEs.


🖥️ Comparison of default features for VS Code and those added to Qodo

Here's just a small list of what Qodo offers over the default VS Code features.

Feature VS Code (Native) VS Code + Qodo
Syntax highlighting ✅ Built-in ✅ Built-in
IntelliSense or Autocomplete ✅ Language-based ✅ AI-powered suggestions
Code review ❌ Manual only ✅ Automated AI review on every change
PR review automation ❌ Not available ✅ Reviews PRs automatically
Test generation ❌ Not available ✅ Auto-generates unit tests
Code explanation ❌ Not available ✅ Explains code
Commit-level review ❌ Not available ✅ Reviews staged & committed changes

Qodo turns your IDE into a powerful coding tool.


✅ Integrating the tool into companies work

If you work on an app with a team, you understand how long code reviews can sometimes take. If you make a pull request to a repository, it can take anywhere from a few hours to days to review, depending on the workload.

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Qodo offers enterprise solutions to help your team accelerate their development process. Companies like Intel, Nvidia, and many others already rely on this tool.

Some advantages of the tool:

  • Faster PR turnaround
  • Automated compliance & standards enforcement
  • Governed, secure AI adoption for enterprise organizations

And many other advantages.


📚 If the documentation wasn't enough, Qodo has many actively developing channels where you can learn about how the tool works and more

Qodo - YouTube

Qodo is the AI Code Review Platform — the quality layer between "AI wrote it" and "production-ready." Multi-agent review with full codebase context, a Rules System that learns from your PR history, and review agents across the IDE, Git, and CLI. Catch critical issues, duplicated logic, and breaking changes before they ship — at the scale AI coding now demands.

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Qodo Blog | Generative AI, Code Integrity and More

Explore Qodo’s take on generative AI, code quality, and developer tools. Practical insights, deep dives, and strong opinions from our engineering team and writers.

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🖋️ Conclusion

The Qodo plugin is a powerful tool for your IDE that can speed up issue resolution in the task tracker. By installing it, you gain advantages as an employee, ensuring your code is more correct, and as a business owner, ensuring your functionality works.


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Have you used Qodo AI yet or are you currently using it? What do you think of this plugin?