--- title: PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus | daily.dev description: A software team describes how growing PR review overhead—driven by team growth, onboarding, and larger AI-assisted PRs—led to constant context switching and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pr-reviews-were-stealing-our-team-s-focus-qvf42iwx1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus | daily.dev og:description: A software team describes how growing PR review overhead—driven by team growth, onboarding, and larger AI-assisted PRs—led to constant context switching and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pr-reviews-were-stealing-our-team-s-focus-qvf42iwx1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qVF42iWx1.png og:image:alt: PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus 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. # PR Reviews Were Stealing Our Team’s Focus **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A software team describes how growing PR review overhead—driven by team growth, onboarding, and larger AI-assisted PRs—led to constant context switching and reviewer fatigue. The team cut required human reviewers from two to one, added the AI reviewer Greptile as a second set of eyes, split review responsibilities by codebase area, and introduced a scheduled review day per developer to protect heads-down time. Several sprints in, the combination of one human reviewer plus Greptile plus a review schedule reduced frustration, though new challenges emerged: knowing when to trust AI feedback, reviews dragging across multiple days on larger PRs, and reduced cross-team visibility from narrower review assignments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can a team reduce context switching caused by too many PR reviews? One approach is combining three changes: reducing required human reviewers from two to one, adding an AI reviewer like Greptile as a second set of eyes, and creating a scheduled PR review day so each developer only handles reviews on one or two days per sprint instead of being interrupted daily. This let developers protect heads-down time on non-review days while still maintaining review quality. _Teams reworking review workflows can track real-world approaches like this one on daily.dev._ ### What are the downsides of using an AI code review tool like Greptile alongside human reviewers? AI reviewers like Greptile can flag issues without understanding product context, so teams risk treating low-priority findings as blocking feedback. One team addressed this by triaging Greptile's flagged issues for risk and logging out-of-scope items in the backlog rather than automatically blocking merges on them, rather than trusting every AI suggestion at face value. _Developers weighing AI reviewers against human-only review can follow practical lessons like these on daily.dev._ ### What problems can arise from scheduling PR reviews to specific days instead of reviewing continuously? Scheduling reviews to designated days can cause feedback to drag out over multiple days when a reviewer leaves comments at the end of their review day and the author doesn't respond until later, forcing another reviewer to pick up a mid-review PR from scratch. It also reduces visibility into other parts of the codebase since developers only see PRs on their assigned days. _Anyone designing a review-day rotation can compare tradeoffs like these on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@leonidbugaev** · 0 upvotes > Cutting two reviewers to one I get, we did that. Putting Greptile in the empty slot is a different kind of coverage. I've had it clear a PR that still needed someone who remembered why the old endpoint existed. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PR reviews were already broken. 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