
I got tired of AI Reviewers hallucinating, so I built an Autonomous Agent for GitLab instead.
We've all been there. You push a massive 300-line Merge Request, and within 3 seconds, an "AI Code Reviewer" bot leaves 12 comments on your PR. You read them. Two comments complain about a "missing import" that is clearly handled globally by your framework. One suggests a library you explicitly removed last sprint. The rest are annoying formatting nits. You quietly click "Resolve Thread" 12 times and sigh. Standard AI reviewers pipe your .patch file into an LLM and pray for the best. They lack context. That’s exactly why I built AI Review Agent . A truly autonomous, context-aware code review agent built natively for GitLab using Go. 🧠 The Problem with "Dumb" AI Reviewers When a human senior developer reviews a PR, they don’t just look at the highlighted diff. If you modify a function signature, they Cmd+Click to see where else it's used. If you introduce a generic struct, they read the interface definition in another file. They think before they speak. Most open-source AI reviewers can
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