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AI Coding Tools Glossary

AI code review

Using an LLM to comment on, summarise or approve pull requests — the fastest-growing AI surface after code generation.

AI reviewers read the diff and flag bugs, style issues and missing tests, either as a first pass before a human or as the only reviewer for low-risk changes. Google reports over 8% of code-review comments internally are now resolved with AI assistance. It is the main lever teams use against the review bottleneck, but it inherits the models' security blind spots.

Source: AI in software engineering at Google — Google Research

See the numbers behind this term: AI Coding Tools Statistics 2026.