December 11, 2025

Doing One Thing Exceptionally Well: CodeRabbit’s Approach to AI Code Review

46 minutes

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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