Code Review Horror Stories
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Reviews that never come, four-second approvals, 10,000-line PRs no human ever read.
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The lineup
Recognize anyone?

Waiting for ReviewReview requested: 412 days ago 
Invited InApproved in 4 seconds 
The SéancePR author: no longer at the company 
Campfire Story+9,014 −0 · 2 approvals · 0 comments 
Night of the Living DiffsApproved: 47 PRs · Read: 0
Funny until it's your on-call. This part isn't fiction:
+242.7%
incidents per PR
+54%
bugs per developer
+31.3%
PRs merged with no review
+13.8%
work restarts
Source: Faros AI Engineering Report 2026
The flashlight: invariants
Write the review comment once. Never again.
CLAUDE.md tells the agent your rules. Invariants check if it listened.
- 01 · The comment you keep writing
Agents repeat the same mistake on every PR that touches the pattern. You catch it by hand, every time.
- 02 · It becomes an invariantInvariant · data access
Database access goes through the repository layer.
Learned from 14 of your review commentsVerify reads your past review comments and turns the ones you keep repeating into rules.
- 03 · Checked on every PRagent/fix-auth · PR #4823Repository layer for DB access✓ passEvery new endpoint checks auth✓ passExternal HTTP calls set a timeout✗ fail
A separate agent checks each PR against your rules and reports pass or fail. You only look where it matters.
The offer
No blood pact required.
Create a free account, generate your team's invariants and keep them, even if you never use Verify again.
Free account · your rules stay yours
Keep the monsters out of main.
Invariants are where it starts. Verify also checks each PR against its intent and acceptance criteria, and keeps the decisions after the merge.