I find using automated tools as part of the pipeline, like codefactor, are a decent first step to sort out some of the glaring issues. As they're automated and

I find using automated tools as part of the pipeline, like codefactor, are a decent first step to sort out some of the glaring issues. As they're automated and act as quality gates before an actual human comes to do a review then they're not as bad as they could be. Sure there scope can be limited, depending on what language/framework you're using, but common ones catch quite a lot of obvious issues.