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AI Code Review Adoption: Data-Driven Insights for Development Teams

Statistics from 50+ credible sources — GitHub, DORA, Stanford, Google — to help make evidence-based decisions rather than following marketing promises.

$300B
Tech debt cost
1.7x
AI code issues
91%
False positives

What You'll Learn

Research-backed insights for developers, tech leads, and engineering managers

The Cost of Code Review Bottleneck

  • 5-6 hours per week spent on review
  • 67% wait over a week for first review
  • $50,000/dev annual context switching cost

AI Code Requires More Review

  • 40% of AI code contains vulnerabilities
  • 42% of AI snippets have hallucinations
  • Only 30% of suggestions accepted

Alert Fatigue Psychology

  • Only 33% trust AI accuracy (down 10%)
  • 73% admit missing high-priority alerts
  • 30% attention drop per repeated alert

Building Developer Trust

  • The 80% adoption / 29% trust paradox
  • Working memory constraints (4-7 chunks)
  • Research-based best practices

Code Review for Onboarding

  • $35,000 total cost per developer
  • 66-150% increase in known files
  • 10-20% faster PR completion

Multi-Agent Systems

  • 7-15% improvement over single models
  • 60% of AI releases use MoE architecture
  • Specialized agents outperform generalists

Research Sources

GitHubGoogle DORAStanfordIEEEACMMicrosoftStack OverflowLinearBNVIDIA

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11 pages of data-driven insights. No fluff. No marketing promises.
Just research that helps you implement AI code review developers actually trust.