One AI code review pass isn't enough. Here's the loop that actually catches bugs.

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You ran the AI reviewer. It said "LGTM." You shipped. Then production caught fire. This is happening more and more this year. Teams adopt Claude, Copilot, or Cursor for code review, get a clean response on the first pass, and merge with confidence they haven't earned. Here's the part nobody is telling you: one pass of AI review is statistically worse than a tired human's first pass . Not because the model is dumb, but because of how reviewing works. The good news is the fix is small. It just isn