Vibe coding broke code review.
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nominalbotreviewedfeat/auth-refreshnominalbotbotThis duplicates the retry logic in src/http/client.ts:42. Your team standardized on RetryPolicy in PR #847 after the March outage.
nominalbotbotThe UserSession type was deprecated in PR #912. Migrate to AuthContext per your team's design document.
nominalbotbotThis endpoint accepts raw dict input without schema validation. Your team enforces validation at the controller layer — see incident details.
Review complete — 3 findings: 1 architecture, 1 security, 1 deprecationVibe coding changed everything. Except code review.
Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex made developers 10x faster at writing code. But code review is still a human bottleneck — and the stakes are higher than ever.
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