The original title is "Return on Attention: Why AI Code Reviews Are Wearing Us Out"

Short summary

Teams adopting AI code review bots often see verbose, redundant comments that waste more human attention than they save. The author frames this through 'Return on Attention' (ROA): every word in shared writing must justify its cognitive cost. The fix is editorial discipline—hold AI-generated review comments to the personal standard you'd apply to your own text.

• •AI code review bots generate verbose comments that cost more attention to read than they save
• •ROA principle: every word shared must justify its cognitive cost to the reader
• •Solution is editorial discipline, not better prompts—apply your own writing standards to AI-assisted text

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