# kaal:claim:4734750-007

**Claim.** The more hierarchical the code review process, the lower the quality of the reviewed code; hierarchy in review is inversely related to output quality.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- legacy code review firms with hierarchical reviewer structures

**Source quote.**

> The more hierarchical the code review process is, the lower is the quality of the reviewed code.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Market for Code Reviews, page 13

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `60eadf91c0913468505afc664c8d8d1e1673d6c5326d031ca7060addb8ab2eda` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20Code%20Review%20DAO.pdf

**Failure mode.** Hierarchy degrades review quality  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** institutional-design, open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** hierarchy, code-quality, code-review, review-process-design

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-017
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-012
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-011

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