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I am on the opposite end of these questions and feel quite differently. Code review tools are great at letting you ask questions about specific parts of the code. And they leave a record so you can go back and show someone else the discussion/others can follow.

It’s also, not necessarily disrespectful, but a very inefficient use of my time to spend 20 minutes chatting with someone about why you need to add a test in XYZ and make sure you check A - when I can do that in just a few minutes exactly when I’m ready otherwise. Because I am reviewing 5+ peoples’ code and have my own things to do as well. The asyncness is necessary for me to manage my time. I can also read much faster than I can listen, and it takes me longer to explain something with words than to find a couple links and write out a few sentences about something.




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