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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2026 · 29 MIN

Code Review Is a Taste Problem | David Poll ⁨@GitHub⁩

from Hangar DX Podcast · host Ankit Jain

"It's not 'Do I read or not read the code.' It's "Does my attention get directed to where it's actually useful?'" David Poll, head of GitHub's Code & Review organization, joins Ankit Jain on the HangarDX podcast to talk about what code review actually does and why it was never really about catching bugs. Why code review is really a taste problem, not a correctness problem, and How PRDs, architecture docs, and design reviews are collapsing into the code review process, Why we might be headed toward a world with 20x more unmerged PRs, How teams can extract review decisions into institutional memory to beat AI slop with AI, about The sliding scale of not reading code and what determines where your team should land 📫 Sign up for our email list for more podcasts, articles, events, and other updates: https://www.aviator.co/podcast ✏️ Subscribe for more videos: @Aviator-Co 🙌 Join a curated community of senior engineers and engineering leaders focused on developer experience and solving productivity challenges at scale! Check out our upcoming off-the-record online sessions where vetted, experienced professionals can exchange ideas and share hard-earned wisdom: https://dx.community/ Replace code reviews with verified intent AI writes code faster than humans can review it. Aviator Verify provides compliance-grade verification through spec-driven development. Ship faster with complete audit trails. https://verify.aviator.co/

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