The best code review improvement I have done in my workflow with Claude is using tuicr (https://tuicr.dev).
It runs locally, YOU review all the code locally, and feedback that to Claude.
Agents reviewing AI code always felt dirty to me, especially when working on production (non-disposable) code.
I wonder if a custom UI that auto-layouts different files in a 2D grid and connects them to each other in a graph in an intuitive way would help a lot with review velocity.
As in, if you have a large screen, a particularly-trained/prompted AI can organize the code changes in a "flowchart" with floating windows you can easily follow
Maybe in this UI, each code piece also comes with a summary from an agent that has already auto-reviewed the whole PR and creates a basic summary (instructed to be neutral but surface issues if it finds any).
Same experience here - I built a similar tool, for reviewing both plans and code - https://crit.md (shameless plug), browser based as opposed to TUI.
Having said that, I don't review the code until going through a few iterations of reviews from Claude. Each round it does find some "obvious" issue, so as long as I'm not close to maxing my subscription for the week I let it run an audit -> validator checks the claims -> fix issues before I get to it.
I've been using https://github.com/choplin/code-review.nvim, which looks like a similar UI, but in the NeoVim interface. `<leader>rc` to comment on a line/selection, then `<leader>ry` to yank all comments into the clipboard to be pasted into a chat.
It leaves the comments as markdown files in ./.code-review, so I also have my `/review` agent set to output in the same format, so an LLM can be reviewing the same code I am, I can edit or dismiss the LLM's reviews, then send the whole thing back to the first agent to fix.
I was thinking for years about doing something like this. Thank you for linking this. Would be nice if it allowed to "reject" or mark a change to fix later, but honestly when it would need to be linked to some tracking tool and it would be overkill.
The video actually convinced me that this might be an interesting tool. I'm going to try it myself for a small one-shot project and see how well it performs.
TUI-based reviews on it's own are already interesting. I had never considered it, I guess.
that's a good addition to fresh editor (also tui) and both rust
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