Claude Code team on how code review is changing
What happened
On 17 October 2026, Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt and Qing Wang wrote about how the Claude Code team does code review. The team no longer treats whether a human read the code as the test, the article says, but asks what could go wrong with a change and which check should catch it. Review therefore becomes a continuous process rather than a gate at the end of a PR, and most changes have already been reviewed and fixed at least once by Claude before a human looks at them.
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- Simon WillisonQuoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt and Qing Wang describe how the Claude Code team does code review: instead of treating "did a human read the code?" as the test, they ask "what could go wrong with this change, and which check should catch it". Review has thus moved from a gate at the end of a PR to something continuous, with most changes reviewed and fixed by Claude at least once before a human looks.
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