AI-Assisted SAP Code Reviews. What to Trust and What to Verify

If you've tried using AI for code reviews in SAP, you've probably noticed it works well on some things and gives you completely overconfident answers on others. The frustrating part is that it doesn't always tell you which is which. For example, you're halfway through a code review, and you've been staring at the same ABAP report for the last two hours. You paste it into an AI tool, it comes back in seconds; flags a SELECT inside a loop you missed, suggests cleaner error handling, and points out a variable that's never used. You fix the issues, feel good about it, and move on. But what you may not have considered is that AI had no idea that report runs against a custom Z-table your team built six years ago to handle a very specific edge case in your financial close process. It didn't know about the implicit business rule baked into that logic. It couldn't see the downstream impact on your FI postings if that error handling were changed the way it suggested. It captured what it could se