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Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests.
Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
Automated reviews may catch critical bugs humans miss.
Anthropic today announced a new Code Review beta feature built into Claude Code for Teams and Enterprise plan users. It's a new software tool that uses agents working in teams to analyze completed blocks of new code for bugs and other potentially problematic issues.
What's a pull request?
To understand this new Anthropic offering, you need to understand the concept of a pull request. And that leads me to a story about a man named Linus.
Long ago, Linux creator Linus Torvalds had a problem. He was managing lots of contributions to the open source Linux operating system. All the changes were getting out of control. Source code control systems (a method for managing source code changes) had been around for quite a while before then, but they had a major problem. Those old SCCSs were not meant to manage distributed development by coders all across the world.
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