The Grokathon: tidying code, together

In my previous post I argued that the human code review has become the bottleneck in our software delivery process, and that most of what a review used to buy us no longer fits in a diff. But if we stop reading every generated line, when does a human ever look at this code, and what should they be doing when they do? Somebody still has to understand that code. It was written fast, it passes a…