Code Review After Roy Lichtenstein
The LGTM
Dilemma!
LGTM: “Looks good to me.”
Find the mistake before you approve.
lines to review
The code doesn’t change.
Only the amount around it.
The joke is the warning.
“If you want to quickly ship a 10 line code change, hide it in a 1500 line pull request.”
Ten lines get a debate. Fifteen hundred get a stamp. In this comic, the code never becomes better. It just becomes harder to see.
Give the important change its own review. The reviewer’s attention is part of the system.
An original interactive homage to Roy Lichtenstein · Pop art meets review fatigue.