Refactoring Podcast Code Reviews, AI, and Modern Engineering 🔍 — with Greg Foster
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Jul 12, 2024 CTO at Graphite, Greg Foster, shares insights on good code reviews, AI in development, and Graphite's engineering team structure. They discuss monorepos vs polyrepos, AI-human balance, and tech apprenticeships in the AI era. Common mistakes in code reviews, integrating AI, and Graphite's dev tool are also covered.
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Power of Small Code Changes
- Smaller code changes significantly improve review quality, reduce bugs, and lower rollback risk.
- Breaking work into small, independent changes enables faster, parallelized reviews and merges.
Evolution Toward Fast Small Changes
- The trend in software development is continuous movement towards faster, smaller, and frequent code changes.
- Traditional large pull requests block progress, while smaller changes unlock parallel work and improve velocity.
Combine Good Practices and Tools
- Use code review tooling to integrate with development practices like trunk-based development and continuous integration.
- Embrace best practices such as mono repos and small, fast code changes to improve workflow.