The AI Code Review Checklist: A Copy-Paste Prompt for Safer Pull Requests

Short summary

AI coding assistants generate code quickly but still need rigorous review to catch failure modes like unhandled edge cases, security risks, and test gaps. This guide provides an 8-category checklist prompt—intent, correctness, security, reliability, performance, tests, maintainability, and rollback—to systematically review AI-assisted pull requests. Use the copy-paste prompt immediately before merging.

• •AI-generated code needs structured review despite appearance of polish
• •8-category checklist covers intent, correctness, security, reliability, performance, tests, maintainability, and rollback
• •Copy-paste prompt catches common failure modes: unhandled edge cases, hidden scope changes, security risks, outdated patterns

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