"Sharing knowledge" is one of the first phrases in the article, and highlighted as a key benefit of code review. But the loss to human-capital from this process is never examined in the post.
> Trivial reviews (typo fixes, small doc changes) cost 20 cents on average
They did around 25,000 of these runs (about 20% of total). So CF spent $5k in the period making language models run through PRs which were <10 lines long. I get that CF engineers are paid well, but the labour cost of having an intern/entry level engineer spend ~30-60s looking through these is likely close to $0.20, and that engineer builds some human-capital while they're at it.
