Have you tried doing them?
Other users have already described healthy code review processes that improve code quality while helping all participants to grow individually and as a team.
How does review treat programmers like cogs in a machine?
Other users have already described healthy code review processes that improve code quality while helping all participants to grow individually and as a team.
How does review treat programmers like cogs in a machine?
Can they be helpful? In some cases, perhaps yes. But they're definitely pushing a collective-ownership, try-to-smooth-away-individual-differences agenda.
Code review shouldn't involve bikeshedding about whether braces should go on the next line or not. It should be about design decisions, clarity of expression, algorithm complexity, etc.