AI Code review is broken. Here’s what nobody wants to admit

I’ve been doing DevOps and infrastructure work for 8 years. Last week I saw a dev on X say he burned $250 in 2 days running Claude for automated PR reviews. That number didn’t surprise me at all. We tried the same thing. Wire up an LLM to your CI pipeline, send every PR through it, get automated review comments. Sounds great in theory. In practice, you get two problems that nobody in the AI tooling space wants to talk about. The cost model is backwards You’re paying per token. That means a one-l