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The only time I make anyone on my team submit a code review is if they're a junior developer, and we're actively trying to make them a better developer.

Otherwise, my experience with code reviews has been that it's one developer telling another developer how they'd approach the problem, or their preferred style, or some such nonsense, with the originally submitted code good enough to get the job done.

Everything else this author says rings true to me when code reviews are a universal practice.

They slow everything down, and only occasionally is that slow down worth it.



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