Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Order matters more than model choice. Deterministic gates (linters, type checkers, secret scanners) run first and block; the LLM reviewer runs second and mostly advises; humans review last, on load-bearing paths — a sequence argued forcefully in Addy Osmani's mid-2026 essay on agentic code review. Severity tiers keep the gate credible. Block on a short list of near-deterministic security findings, warn on performance, suggest on style, open a discussion on architecture. A reviewer that blocks merges on style opinions gets switched off within a month. False positives are a config problem, not fate. Learnings files, path filters and confidence thresholds are the three levers. ByteDance's BitsAI-CR reached 75.0% precision in production only after adding a dedicated…
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