Adversarial Code Review Rounds Fail to Catch Bugs Reintroduced by Prior Fixes
Engineering teams reviewing critical code paths, such as payment processing, find that even repeated rounds of adversarial review don't prevent new bugs -- each fix for a previously found bug introduces its own defect that the next round has to catch. This pattern points to a reliability gap in how fixes are verified before being accepted, especially where correctness is high-stakes.
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