# CodeRabbit 34 Hacker News commenters recommended CodeRabbit and 32 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it as a first-pass reviewer that catches bugs, vulnerabilities and config issues that humans miss. The common caveat is noisy, nitpicky output with false positives. ## Why people recommend it - Catches bugs and issues humans miss (6 comments): "it's better than practically any human I've worked with at a number of code review tasks, such as finding vulnerabilities, highlighting configuration issues, bad practices" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426846)) "It regularly finds problems, including subtle but important problems that human reviewers struggle to find." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771089)) "Code Rabbit catches more bugs than anyone in our main platform - mostly because it gets the first crack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051135)) - Strong security and vulnerability checks (4 comments): "it's better than practically any human I've worked with at a number of code review tasks, such as finding vulnerabilities, highlighting configuration issues, bad practices" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426846)) "use CodeRabbit's defensive AI agents to run a deep-scan of your repo, identify and fix vulnerabilities for free until Nov 8th" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250591)) "We help you identify and fix hidden loopholes that could otherwise be exploited by bad-faith attackers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263610)) - Useful first pass before human review (3 comments): "Automated code review systems like CodeRabbit are, dare I even say, reasonable as a first line of defense these days." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522360)) "the corporate CodeRabbit does a first pass code review against the code so any glaring errors are stomped out" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379441)) "AI code review tools are already good. That makes for a good first pass." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320199)) - Deep reviews, aware of context (3 comments): "They catch the small things (violations of contract, antipatterns, etc.) and the large (ux concerns, architectural flaws, etc.)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496198)) "Nothing comes close to the depth of CodeRabbit reviews." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408002)) "it tends to be aware of files that aren't in the diff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46348332)) ## What people warn about - Noisy, nitpicky, false positives (4 comments): "this code review tool has such poor results that it isn't worth the "noise" and friction it causes developers during C/I code review" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573957)) "I do agree that the tool we use (code rabbit) is a little too nitpicky, but it's right way more than it's wrong." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320284)) "it flags a lot of things and mostly they were false positives so eventually we stopped relying on it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748351)) - Misses issues, sometimes superficial (2 comments): "sometimes it's stupid and doesn't know what it's talking about, and also misses stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315359)) "I've never seen CodeRabbit being anything more than a superficial reviewer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348963)) - Wrong or incorrect findings (2 comments): "every single code rabbit ad was some incorrectly classified bug / completely wrong to begin with" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778555)) "just the other day coderabbit was asking me where i found x when when it told me x didn't exist" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907519)) - Intrusive bot behavior, unrequested features (2 comments): "They enable beta features without asking, so one day your GitHub issues get AI responses without anyone ever asking it to respond to it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425220)) "Having to interact with bots as if they are humans, especially when they are gate keeping, is degrading." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383621)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [GitHub Stacked PRs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-stacked-prs.md): 64 recommend - [Gerrit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gerrit.md): 60 recommend - [Graphite code review](https://hackerapproved.com/p/graphite.md): 52 recommend - [Stage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stage.md): 32 recommend - [Whiteboard IDE](https://hackerapproved.com/p/whiteboard.md): 29 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.coderabbit.ai/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "CodeRabbit", https://hackerapproved.com/p/coderabbit/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).