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# Teaching an LLM to review code … like a Senior Engineer!


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 15:00–15:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 11
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100324-teaching-an-llm-to-review-code-like-a-senior-engineer)

## Description

There’s no doubt LLMs can generate plausible, working code – but can we trust them to review it?
Being a helpful assistant is deeply ingrained in an LLM’s nature, but when it comes to code reviews, this works against us.
What could have been a simple Pull Request approval turns into a lavish, flattering, one-page-long description of how great the code is, how extensive the test coverage is, and how brilliant the architectural choices are. No one has the time to read those reviews, and ultimately engineers stop paying attention. And even if the LLM does surface a real issue, chances are it’s going to be lost in the noise of dozens of good-to-haves and minor, irrelevant nitpicks.
This is a story of how we built an LLM code review bot that behaves as a senior engineer – surfacing important, actionable violations of human-curated guidance and maximising signal-to-noise ratio.

## Speaker

### [Kesha Mykhailov](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@kesha-mykhailov)

Principal Engineer at Intercom/Fin


## Related talks at this congress

- [Rules, Heuristics, or LLMs? Lessons from Solving the Same Problem Twice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1113-rules-heuristics-or) — Artur Naumenko
- [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1158-cutting-llm-costs) — Viktoria Semaan
- [From Hallucination to Justification: Hands-On Explainability for LLMs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1239-from-hallucination) — Lucía Conde-Moreno, Tessel Haagen
- [Your AI Ships Code Faster Than Anyone Can Review It](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1123-your-ai-ships-code) — Rasmus Klärck