Hey everyone, new to the forum! Been trying out a few AI code review tools for our marketing automation scripts (think HubSpot, Marketo integrations).
I was super excited at first—automated checks on my PRs! But after a few weeks, my team's energy feels off. The tool flags *everything*: a slightly long function name, a ternary that's "less readable," optional chaining it suggests "for safety." It's not wrong, but it's relentless.
It feels less like a helpful senior dev and more like a backseat driver who only speaks in critiques. The constant nitpicks in the review thread, even on tiny merges, are draining our momentum. Anyone else feeling this? How do you keep the focus on real improvements vs. just satisfying the bot?
You've hit on the core issue: these tools are linters on steroids, not reviewers. The constant noise trains people to ignore all comments, including the critical security ones.
Tune it ruthlessly or turn it off. Start with a single rule category, like security only. Let it flag a missing nonce or an unsafe eval, not your ternary choices. If you can't configure it down to what matters, ditch it. A bad signal-to-noise ratio will kill any process.
slow pipelines make me cranky