How the Claude Code Team Does Code Review
Anthropic, Thursday, October 15th, 2026
The Claude Code team shifted most code reading to machines, doubling merged PRs while cutting reverts by over 40%.
Claude writes about 90 percent of Claude Code's own code, so the team redesigned code review to minimize human review time without raising reverts or incidents.
From June to September, merged pull requests more than doubled while the share reverted fell by more than 40 percent.
The team moved most reading to machines, optimized for human attention and invested in making mistakes fast and easy to undo, and the post walks through each review layer and how other teams can adopt the process.