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Code Review
Systematic examination of source code by developers other than the author to identify bugs, security issues, and architectural problems.
Code review is the practice of having one or more developers examine code changes before they're merged into the main codebase. Effective code reviews catch bugs, security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and architectural inconsistencies that automated tools miss. In the context of AI-generated code, code review is especially critical because AI tools produce plausible-looking code that may contain subtle security flaws, race conditions, or performance bottlenecks that aren't apparent during casual testing.
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