AI coding tools make it much cheaper to produce a first draft.

But they do not remove the need for review discipline.

A simple rule I like:

If AI materially helped write a pull request, run a structured AI review before asking a human reviewer.

Ask the assistant to check:

goal fit

unnecessary scope expansion

logic errors

edge cases

API/contract changes

security and privacy risks

data integrity risks

performance concerns

weak or missing tests

maintainability

rollback risk

The key is not:

review this code

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The better instruction is:

Review this PR like a strict senior engineer.…