Recorded live at All Things Open, Robbie and guest co-host Nick Taylor talk with Erik Thorelli and Hendrik Krack from CodeRabbit about how they’re rethinking AI-powered code review, why focus beats feature-bloat, the value of transparency, and how CodeRabbit reduces cognitive load for developers while keeping humans meaningfully in the loop.

In this episode:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:45) - Wine rating & review
(01:43) - What is CodeRabbit?
(05:31) - How CodeRabbit actually works: ASTs, tools, and sequence diagrams
(09:20) - Open source: free usage, real-world configs, and community behavior
(15:05) - What makes CodeRabbit different from other AI code tools
(24:57) - Customizing CodeRabbit
(32:53) - What's next for CodeRabbit?
(39:55) - Where to learn more about CodeRabbit

Links

CodeRabbit: https://www.coderabbit.ai/
GitHub: https://github.com/
Claude: https://claude.ai/
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
iTerm: https://iterm2.com/
Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Cursor Bugbot: https://cursor.com/bugbot
Daneil Roe: https://roe.dev/
VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
Ember: https://emberjs.com/
React: https://react.dev/
Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
Vue: https://vuejs.org/
Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
Parks and Recreation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation
Go: https://go.dev/
Bun: https://bun.com/
Zig: https://ziglang.org/
Mitchell Hashimoto: https://x.com/mitchellh
HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/
IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
Silicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
OpenAI Dev Day: https://openai.com/devday/
WWDC: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/
Assistant UI: https://www.assistant-ui.com/

Connect with Erik

Website: https://www.coderabbit.ai/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/esthor

Connect with Hendrik

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/climateadvocateaienthusiast/
X / Twitter: https://x.com/HKrackDev

Connect with the hosts

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