The review
What it does
Patchwork Review comments on pull requests the way a patient senior engineer would. It flags likely bugs, missing tests and confusing names, then ranks its comments by severity so the important ones don't drown in style nits. Each comment links to the line and says what could go wrong, not just what to change.
Why we like it
The severity ranking is the feature. Most AI reviewers produce twenty comments of equal volume; Patchwork usually leads with the one or two that matter. Juniors on teams we spoke to say the explanations taught them more than any style guide. It also stays quiet on files you mark as generated, which removes a lot of noise.
Watch out for
- It can't see your production behaviour, so performance and concurrency warnings are educated guesses.
- Free tier is limited to public repositories.
- Treat an empty review as 'nothing obvious', not as approval. A human still merges.
