The collective of reviewers in legacy code review is not incentivized to find flaws in the code, because the review is treated as the work product of the initial reviewer with minor input from follow-up reviewers rather than as a product of the collective.
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The collective of reviewers is also not incentivized to find flaws in the code to optimize code as a work product of the collective.
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Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024), Market for Code Reviews, p. 34 https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632 · source PDF
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applies to legacy hierarchical code review firms
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failuresupport: arguedfailure: No Incentive to Find Flawsfamily: staking-and-incentive-misalignmentai-and-agentsrisk-and-incentivesopen-source-and-codecitation-and-knowledge
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