They were already on life support. The need to “move fast” “there is no time”, “we have a 79 file PR with 7k line changes that we have been working on for 6 weeks. Can you please review it quickly? We wanna demo tomorrow GTM meeting”. Management found zero value in code reviews. You still can’t catch everything, so what’s the point? They can’t measure what the value of such process is.
Now? Now every junior dev is pushing 12 PRs a week, all adding 37 new files and thousands of lines that have been auto generated with a ton of patterns and themes that are all over the place and you are expecting anyone to keep up?
Just merge it. I have seen people go from:
> “asking who is best to review changes in area X? I have a couple of questions to make sure I’m doing things right”
To
> “this seems to work fine. Can I get a quick review? Trying to push it out and see how it works”
To
> “need 2 required approvals on this PR please?”