Your code reviewer should never be the first to read your code

the most useful habit i have hasn't changed in years: your reviewer should never be the first person to read your code. it doesn't matter if the change is one line. you read it first. the trick is reading it in the diff view, the same tool your reviewer will use, not your editor. the diff is a different lens. the debug print you forgot, the block you commented out, the variable you renamed everywhere but one place, all of it looks fine while you're writing and wrong sitting next to everything else that changed. this matters more now that an agent writes the code, not less. you're no longer the author who remembers every keystroke. you're the first reviewer of a change you mostly watched happen. so read it like a stranger wrote it. in a sense, one did. https://starikov.co/commit-lifecycle/ submitted by /u/iGotYourPistola [link] [留言]