30 Years of Code Review: How Every Fix Created New Bottleneck Until Now | Santosh Yadav, CodeRabbit

In this talk, Santosh Yadav explores the evolution of code review processes over the past 30 years, detailing how innovations such as Fagan Inspections, email patches, and GitHub pull requests have consistently introduced new bottlenecks. He discusses the accelerating growth of pull requests that outpaces teams' ability to review them, highlighting human approvals as the last significant hurdle. Yadav also examines the emerging role of AI-assisted reviews, presenting a vision of what agentic review loops could mean for the future of software development. As a Principal Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit and a recognized expert in Angular, he brings valuable insights into the ongoing challenges and transformations within the coding landscape.