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Comments on No. 7 of 111 · Hayden Bleasel · edition of Saturday 31 October 2026

Two Kinds of Code Review

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Hayden Bleasel, an engineer at OpenAI, argues that code review is two jobs: objective review (does it work) and subjective review (is it the right change, in scope and direction). He says agents now do the first better, and people should skim file lists and approach. He cites OpenAI evals where Codex with written rules caught 98% of targeted findings versus 58% without. Several cited review studies and Faros figures could not be verified.

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