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Gartner® Innovation Insight: AI Code Review Tools

"AI-assisted development has created a critical review bottleneck as engineering teams generate dramatically more new code without increasing code review capacity. This research helps engineering leaders evaluate and implement AI code review tools for scaling quality assurance."

Gartner® Innovation Insight: AI Code Review Tools

Engineering teams are using AI to write code faster than ever, leading to a code review bottleneck and compromised code quality. Teams using AI to review their AI-generated code face further issues: self-reinforcing feedback loops, and a loss of critical human expertise.

In our view, this Gartner research report helps engineering leaders evaluate code review approaches that keep pace with AI, and ensure quality and security at scale.

This report covers:

  • How to address AI-driven QA bottlenecks
  • Breaking AI-on-AI validation loops
  • Preserving human review expertise
  • The importance of connecting code review tools to organisational guidelines for consistent enforcement across all code changes

For leaders in Salesforce teams, where the cost of bad code reaching production is high and release cycles are increasingly fast-paced, we feel this report is essential reading.

Gartner, Inc. Innovation Insight: AI Code Review Tools. Shiva Varma, Arun Batchu, Nitish Tyagi. 8 July 2025. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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