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North Pole incident report: Why Santa now uses AI code reviews
Confidential Postmortem — NP-SEV1-1224Classification: TINSEL RED (Top-Secret, Festive) Executive summary On December 24, 2024 at 03:14 UTC-Pole, the North Pole Production Environment experienced a critical security breach in the Gift Distribution Pip...
Measuring what matters in the age of AI-assisted development
Every engineering leader I talk to is asking the same question: "Is AI actually making us better?" Not "are we using AI" (everyone is). Not "is AI generating code" (it clearly is). And not even, “What percentage of our code is AI generating?” (unless...
Our 10 best posts of the year: A 2025 CodeRabbit blog roundup
This year, we dove deep into all kinds of topics, from the philosophical shift toward “Slow AI” to the practical realities of building with increasingly sophisticated LLM models to why you shouldn’t trust threads with 🚀on vibe coding for code you in...
Why 2025 was the year the internet kept breaking: Studies show incidents are increasing
Rising outages: What the data tells us In October, the founder of www.IsDown.app went on Reddit to share some disturbing charts. His website, an authoritative source on whether a website is down or not, has been tracking outages since 2022. And he ha...
Behind the curtain: What it really takes to bring a new model online at CodeRabbit
When we published our earlier article on why users shouldn't choose their own models, we argued that model selection isn't a matter of preference, it's a systems problem. This post explains exactly why. Bringing a new model online at CodeRabbit isn't...
It's harder to read code than to write it (especially when AI writes it)
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix and co-author of The C Programmi...
Gemini 3 for code-related tasks: The dense engineer
TL;DR: It doesn’t just write patches; it writes a complete argument for every change. When Gemini 3 is right, it’s spectacularly right. When it’s wrong, it still sounds right. Every model writes in our house style. Gemini 3 rewrites the rules. All o...
How CodeRabbit's Agentic Code Validation helps with code reviews
The 2025 Stack Overflow survey reveals a paradox: while 84% of developers express confidence in adopting AI tools, nearly half (48%) still distrust the accuracy of their outputs. This tension between optimism and skepticism has reshaped how teams thi...
Opus 4.5 for code-related tasks: Performs like the systems architect
Every model reasons. Opus 4.5 audits. Every new model arrives with the same promise: smarter reasoning, cleaner code, and better answers. But Opus 4.5 from Anthropic doesn’t just reason; it audits. It reads code as if returning to a system it helped ...
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Announcing CodeRabbit Startup Program
In the startup world, speed and quality are often seen as tradeoffs, with AI-powered code reviews you can have both. Startups and small dev teams face numerous challenges shipping code day-to-day while navigating tight deadlines, and meeting user exp...
CodeRabbit Announces $16M Series-A Funding Led by CRV
Exciting news! CodeRabbit has secured a $16 million Series A funding round, with CRV leading the charge. This funding will help us accelerate our mission to transform code quality, security and developer productivity with AI. Reid Christian, General ...
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North Pole incident report: Why Santa now uses AI code reviews
Confidential Postmortem — NP-SEV1-1224Classification: TINSEL RED (Top-Secret, Festive) Executive summary On December 24, 2024 at 03:14 UTC-Pole, the North Pole Production Environment experienced a critical security breach in the Gift Distribution Pip...
Measuring what matters in the age of AI-assisted development
Every engineering leader I talk to is asking the same question: "Is AI actually making us better?" Not "are we using AI" (everyone is). Not "is AI generating code" (it clearly is). And not even, “What percentage of our code is AI generating?” (unless...
Our 10 best posts of the year: A 2025 CodeRabbit blog roundup
This year, we dove deep into all kinds of topics, from the philosophical shift toward “Slow AI” to the practical realities of building with increasingly sophisticated LLM models to why you shouldn’t trust threads with 🚀on vibe coding for code you in...
Why 2025 was the year the internet kept breaking: Studies show incidents are increasing
Rising outages: What the data tells us In October, the founder of www.IsDown.app went on Reddit to share some disturbing charts. His website, an authoritative source on whether a website is down or not, has been tracking outages since 2022. And he ha...
Our new report: AI code creates 1.7x more problems
What we learned from analyzing hundreds of open-source pull requests. Over the past year, AI coding assistants have gone from emerging tools to everyday fixtures in the development workflow. At many organizations, a part of every code change is now m...
Behind the curtain: What it really takes to bring a new model online at CodeRabbit
When we published our earlier article on why users shouldn't choose their own models, we argued that model selection isn't a matter of preference, it's a systems problem. This post explains exactly why. Bringing a new model online at CodeRabbit isn't...
It's harder to read code than to write it (especially when AI writes it)
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix and co-author of The C Programmi...
Gemini 3 for code-related tasks: The dense engineer
TL;DR: It doesn’t just write patches; it writes a complete argument for every change. When Gemini 3 is right, it’s spectacularly right. When it’s wrong, it still sounds right. Every model writes in our house style. Gemini 3 rewrites the rules. All o...
How CodeRabbit's Agentic Code Validation helps with code reviews
The 2025 Stack Overflow survey reveals a paradox: while 84% of developers express confidence in adopting AI tools, nearly half (48%) still distrust the accuracy of their outputs. This tension between optimism and skepticism has reshaped how teams thi...
