{"slug": "ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop", "title": "AI Code Review Needs a Place to Stop", "summary": "A developer proposes that AI code review tools need a stopping rule, not just more findings. They suggest sorting findings into categories and requiring evidence with line references before marking anything as safe to skip, acknowledging that citations are not truth but places to look.", "body_md": "More code is being written by AI now.\n\nOddly, reading it is not the tiring part.\n\nThe tiring part is this:\n\n“Maybe I should check one more thing.”\n\nAnd then another thing.\n\nA review can continue forever if nobody gives it permission to end.\n\nAt some point, I realized I was asking the wrong question.\n\nI kept asking the AI to find more problems.\n\nBut the real problem wasn’t finding things.\n\nIt was deciding which findings still deserved attention.\n\nSo I started sorting them into three boxes.\n\nThe second box is the interesting one.\n\n“Looks fine” is not enough.\n\nIf the AI says something is safe to skip, it has to explain what it actually checked: ran the code, counted all references, found a rule in documentation, or proved something from the structure.\n\nAnd it has to point to `path:line`\n\n.\n\nThat changes the job.\n\nInstead of solving the problem again, I can look at the evidence and ask a much cheaper question:\n\n“Yes, is that actually there?”\n\nSometimes.\n\nBecause there’s a catch.\n\nAn AI can also confidently write “structurally impossible” next to a very convincing wrong line number.\n\nA citation is not truth.\n\nIt is only a place to look.\n\nAnd “safe to skip” probably won’t feel safe at first.\n\nI’ll still read that pile.\n\nProbably for a while.\n\nSo this won’t save time on Tuesday.\n\nMaybe after three weeks.\n\nBut I think that’s the useful part of the idea.\n\n**AI code review doesn’t necessarily need to find fewer things. It needs a rule for stopping.**\n\nTomorrow, I’d try only this:\n\nSort findings into human decision / safe to skip / unverified.\n\nAnything “safe” needs evidence and`path:line`\n\n. Otherwise, it isn’t safe yet.\n\nAI is very good at continuing.\n\nHumans are too, unfortunately.\n\nSomeone has to say, “Enough.”", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/isurogi/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop-22ae", "published_at": "2026-09-02 14:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-02 14:25:45.970306+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-code-review-needs-a-place-to-stop.jsonld"}}