From spending weeks on addressing PR comments, to team trust and codebase mastery

Spending days, even weeks, on rounds of code reviews on every single pull request is a huge slog, and a risk. In the time that you spend revising the PR, you could end up dealing with changing requirements with new information from customers or related issues and bugs. I've even had to start all over again! This happens more often when joining a new team, while learning a new, unfamiliar codebase. Two or three years into my career as a developer, I joined a company of more than two thousand...