154: How Not to Drown in AI Code Reviews

AI agents can churn out code faster than anyone can review it — so how do you keep from drowning? We don't claim to have all the answers, but we dig into practical ways to make AI-generated code less sloppy and reviews less painful — review tools, code-review skills, and the still-irreplaceable habit of smoke testing a PR yourself. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - How to not drown in code reviews 49:55 - What's Making Us Happy Links Anthropic: Recursive Self Improvement Spotify Engineering: Coding is No Longer the Constraint CodeRabbit Superpowers Amelia Wattenberger: how coding used to be how we thought What's Making Us Happy Paige: Chef's Choice Electric Knife Sharpener Jack: Cooper's Hawks TJ: Acadia National Park Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. Join us in our Discord, explore our website and reach us via email, or talk to us on X, Bluesky, or YouTube. Front-End Fire website Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fire Follow us on Bluesky @front-end-fire.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel @Front-EndFirePodcast