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Thoughts onReview Everywhere

Architecture, product decisions, and lessons from building a review agent across GitHub, desktop, terminal, CI, cloud, and chat.

Repository Embeddings: Giving a Review Agent Real Memory

How we built a semantic context layer that helps MSD understand repository history, patterns, and architecture across review surfaces.

Engineering Team

2025-12-18

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ProductUX

Hotkeys: Why Power Users Love Our Interface

The mouse is slow. The keyboard is fast. Power users know this instinctively. We built an interface that respects your hands.

Engineering Team•2025-12-02

ProductReview Ops

My Senior Dev: Review Beyond the Pull Request

MSD is built for teams that want higher-signal review, proactive follow-through, and one review system across GitHub, desktop, terminal, CI, cloud, and chat.

Engineering Team•2025-12-01

OpinionCode Review

Five Years for a Toggle: Why PR Tools Are Stuck in 2018

A simple "hide whitespace" checkbox took GitHub Desktop 5 years to ship. This isn't a critique—it's a symptom of how little PR review tooling has evolved.

Engineering Team•2025-11-27

ProductResearch

Rethinking PR Review: A Research-Backed Approach

The last major innovation in PR visualization was 2018. We went back to the research to build something better.

Engineering Team•2025-11-26

AITools

Top AI Review Agents to Watch in 2026

A guide to the AI review landscape of 2026, from GitHub-native reviewers to multi-surface review agents.

Chief Architect•2025-11-24

AICode Review

The Art of AI-Assisted Review: Why "LGTM" is Not Enough

We are drowning in AI-generated code. The solution isn't to stop using AI, but to change how we review it.

Chief Architect•2025-11-23

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