Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering Daily CodeRabbit and RAG for Code Review with Harjot Gill
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Jun 24, 2025 
Harjot Gill, Founder and CEO of CodeRabbit, discusses how generative AI is transforming code reviews. He shares insights on integrating AI into development workflows to enhance code quality and security. The conversation covers CodeRabbit's innovative multi-model strategy, the challenges of managing context in AI, and the importance of transparency in AI interactions. Gill also highlights lessons from bootstrapping his startup, including strategies for customer acquisition in the developer market and the exciting future of automating coding tasks.
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Harjot Gill's Startup Journey
- Harjot Gill co-founded CodeRabbit, a startup using generative AI for code review focusing on quality and security.
- Within a couple of years, it grew to serve 100,000 developers daily across various industries.
Integrate AI in Pull Requests
- Use CodeRabbit during the pull request phase as an AI reviewer alongside existing CI/CD and human reviews.
- Integrate it with tools like GitHub and VS Code to catch code quality and security issues before merging.
AI Agentic Code Review Approach
- Code review demands deep reasoning and latency-insensitive workflows, unlike low-latency code generation tasks.
- CodeRabbit creates cloud sandboxes allowing AI to run CLI commands and explore codebases dynamically to validate issues.
