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title: "Red Queen Code Review Pattern with AI"
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published: "2025-11-05T08:21:10.000+00:00"
updated: "2025-11-05T08:21:10.000+00:00"
tags: ["Pattern"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
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description: "Red Queen code review, a pattern by my colleague Harel Coman: every AI code review issue must change either your code or the review rules file."
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# Red Queen Code Review Pattern with AI

My colleague, [Harel Coman](https://dev.to/haco29/), wrote about a new AI-driven code review pattern he's been implementing lately called [Red Queen Code Review](https://dev.to/haco29/the-red-queen-code-review-pattern-perpetual-evolution-in-ai-powered-development-2ego). I like this idea. If I had to put it in a sentence:

> Every Code Review "issue" **must** change either your code, or the AI code review rules file. I.e - code reviews that find something **always** **change something**.

A pretty powerful way to "evolve" your AI code review skills continuously. Kudos!

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove** - Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

-   [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
-   [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
-   [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
-   [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
-   [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
-   [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### Contact

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### License

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More about Roy and his other sites and projects: [https://robotpaper.ai/about-roy.md](https://robotpaper.ai/about-roy.md)