# kaal:claim:4734750-023

**Claim.** Code reviews in legacy firms are often highly subjective, and without crowd controls that subjectivity produces suboptimal review outcomes because no single developer will agree on a given set of code and its intended functionality.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- reviews conducted without crowd control mechanisms

**Source quote.**

> Code reviews in legacy code review firms are often highly subjective which leads to rather suboptimal outcomes without crowd controls.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Feedback Loops, page 18

**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.** Idiosyncratic reviewer preference  (family: measurement-and-metric-failure)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** subjectivity, crowd-control, review-quality, idiosyncratic-preferences

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