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AI Engineer July 12, 2026 25m

ReviewDebt: a practical framework for scoring every pull request — Sachin Gupta, Ebay

Summary

This transcript discusses "review debt," a new type of technical debt created by AI code generation tools. Despite increased commit volume, review comments have decreased significantly, leading to longer review times and more unreviewed pull requests, as evidenced by GitHub and Faros AI data. The practical takeaway is that while AI accelerates code creation, its pace outstrips human review capacity, creating an unmeasured and compounding debt that requires attention.

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