Code Review Bingo

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ELI5 — The Vibe Check

Code Review Bingo is the game you play during code reviews where you spot classic patterns: 'TODO: fix this later' (it never gets fixed), commented-out code with no explanation, functions named 'handleStuff', and the perennial 'this is temporary' comment from 3 years ago. AI-generated PRs have added new squares: 'unnecessarily verbose', 'hallucinated import', and 'certainly! here's the code.'

Real Talk

Code Review Bingo is a humorous representation of common anti-patterns found during code reviews. While tongue-in-cheek, it highlights recurring issues in code quality. In the AI coding era, new patterns include excessive boilerplate, inconsistent naming across AI-generated and human-written code, and placeholder comments from prompt artifacts.

When You'll Hear This

"I got Code Review Bingo on this PR — TODO, magic number, AND god function." / "AI-generated PRs need their own Code Review Bingo card."

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