Who has enjoyed using PR code reviewers? What worked and what didn’t?

3 pointsposted 2 months ago
by yashwantphogat

Item id: 46295395

4 Comments

ryanchants

2 months ago

We're using CodeRabbit at work, and it has been pretty positive overall. Especially once we turned off the poems and sequence diagram noise. Useful enough that I'm looking at paying for it for side projects when I am the sole developer.

yashwantphogat

2 months ago

That makes sense. A lot of these tools seem to become useful once the extra noise is turned down. I’m actually building and testing a quieter review approach myself and trying to understand what really helps in day-to-day use. would you like to give it a try?

casmn

2 months ago

I am using dependabot, grouped dependencies once a week.

We started by having it doing PR for every single dependencies update every day, but that was a little too much noise

But i depends on how big your team is

yashwantphogat

2 months ago

Yes, team size really changes the dynamics. We ran into similar issues when reviews started taking over entire days. I’m building and testing a quieter review approach that only goes deeper when asked, and I’m trying to understand where that tradeoff works best. would you like to try it out? your feedback will help me to improve it further.