“We have seen scenarios where PRs waited days and even weeks before getting merged, or where important feedback was missed. These pain points motivated us to try AI assistance in the review process. The goal was to let AI handle the repetitive or easily overlooked aspects of reviews, freeing human reviewers to focus on higher-level concerns.”
Sneha Tuli, Principal Product Manager. Leads the rollout of the pull request assistant she describes, so she is an insider; Microsoft sells AI tooling and the post ends by promoting GitHub Copilot, so it is promotional.
Microsoft sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
How this was checked
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-04).
Exact match of all three sentences in sequence. The post is authored by Sneha Tuli.
How to cite this passage
Sneha Tuli (Microsoft), “Enhancing Code Quality at Scale with AI-Powered Code Reviews”, Engineering@Microsoft blog, 2025-07-14, at Solving the real problems in PR reviews with AI. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/enhancing-code-quality-at-scale-with-ai-powered-code-reviews/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/microsoft-goal-let-ai-handle-repetitive-2025
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