Doing One Thing Exceptionally Well: CodeRabbit’s Approach to AI Code Review
Show notes
Recorded live at All Things Open, Robbie and guest co-host Nick Taylor talk with Erik Thorelli and Hendrik Krack from CodeRabbit about how they’re rethinking AI-powered code review, why focus beats feature-bloat, the value of transparency, and how CodeRabbit reduces cognitive load for developers while keeping humans meaningfully in the loop.
In this episode:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:45) - Wine rating & review
- (01:43) - What is CodeRabbit?
- (05:31) - How CodeRabbit actually works: ASTs, tools, and sequence diagrams
- (09:20) - Open source: free usage, real-world configs, and community behavior
- (15:05) - What makes CodeRabbit different from other AI code tools
- (24:57) - Customizing CodeRabbit
- (32:53) - What's next for CodeRabbit?
- (39:55) - Where to learn more about CodeRabbit
Links
- CodeRabbit: https://www.coderabbit.ai/
- GitHub: https://github.com/
- Claude: https://claude.ai/
- ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/
- Ghostty: https://ghostty.org/
- iTerm: https://iterm2.com/
- Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
- Cursor Bugbot: https://cursor.com/bugbot
- Daneil Roe: https://roe.dev/
- VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Windsurf: https://windsurf.ai/
- Ember: https://emberjs.com/
- React: https://react.dev/
- Next.js: https://nextjs.org/
- Vue: https://vuejs.org/
- Svelte: https://svelte.dev/
- Parks and Recreation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation
- Go: https://go.dev/
- Bun: https://bun.com/
- Zig: https://ziglang.org/
- Mitchell Hashimoto: https://x.com/mitchellh
- HashiCorp: https://www.hashicorp.com/
- IBM: https://www.ibm.com/
- Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
- Silicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)
- OpenAI Dev Day: https://openai.com/devday/
- WWDC: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/
- Assistant UI: https://www.assistant-ui.com/
Connect with Erik
- Website: https://www.coderabbit.ai/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/esthor
Connect with Hendrik
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/climateadvocateaienthusiast/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/HKrackDev
Connect with the hosts
- Robbie Wagner: https://x.com/RobbieTheWagner
- Chuck Carpenter: https://x.com/CharlesWthe3rd
- Adam Argyle: https://x.com/argyleink
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