--- title: Code Review Is Broken - Here's What Elite Teams Do Instead description: Traditional code review processes are fundamentally broken, especially in the age of AI-generated code. The 'LGTM syndrome' — rubber-stamp approvals — creates... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/code-review-is-broken---here-s-what-elite-teams-do-instead-bedtykanx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Code Review Is Broken - Here's What Elite Teams Do Instead | daily.dev og:description: Traditional code review processes are fundamentally broken, especially in the age of AI-generated code. The 'LGTM syndrome' — rubber-stamp approvals — creates... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/code-review-is-broken---here-s-what-elite-teams-do-instead-bedtykanx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BeDTYKanx.png og:image:alt: Code Review Is Broken - Here's What Elite Teams Do Instead og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Code Review Is Broken - Here's What Elite Teams Do Instead **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 13 min read · 36 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Traditional code review processes are fundamentally broken, especially in the age of AI-generated code. The 'LGTM syndrome' — rubber-stamp approvals — creates an illusion of safety rather than real quality. AI coding agents now generate code far faster than humans can meaningfully review it, with AI-generated code producing 1.7x more issues per PR. The solution involves several shifts: keeping PRs small and short-lived, designing architectures for modifiability, replacing the gatekeeper model with a mentoring model, using synchronous collaboration like mob programming, maintaining healthy senior-to-junior ratios (1:2 to 1:4), adopting inner sourcing to prevent knowledge silos, and treating automated testing as a first-class architectural requirement. The goal is building engineers who understand the system deeply enough that reviews become a formality, not a bottleneck. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yaireo** · 8 upvotes > There is also a problem where some devs are very very aggressive about their PRs and gets "insulted" very easily if they get a pushback on their PRs and some reviewers don't have the backbone to stand up to poor-PRs bullies and allow bad code to enter the codebase. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Code Reviews in the Age of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/code-reviews-in-the-age-of-ai-acvy63drb) · Earthly · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/code-review-is-broken---here-s-what-elite-teams-do-instead-bedtykanx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Code Review Is Broken - Here's What Elite Teams Do Instead","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/code-review-is-broken---here-s-what-elite-teams-do-instead-bedtykanx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/code-review-is-broken---here-s-what-elite-teams-do-instead-bedtykanx"},"datePublished":"2026-04-16T16:17:21.219Z","dateModified":"2026-04-16T16:17:41.974Z","description":"Traditional code review processes are fundamentally broken, especially in the age of AI-generated code. 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