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> However, think about your own process, at least for me, depending on a feature/the engineer, my code review might be cursory rather than super line by line. T
by WalterSear 7y ago
> However, think about your own process, at least for me, depending on a feature/the engineer, my code review might be cursory rather than super line by line. The difference? How much I trust that engineers ability in that specific type of code.
The difference is that you can't review your own code, for the same reason that writers work with editors: The reviewer is leveraging their unfamiliarity with the code along with their familiarity with the code's intent and the codebase, as a critical tool.
If it was feasible to get someone else familiar enough with the project that they could review it, I would do that, but at that point, I wouldn't be working on my own.