Only dev at my company and the AI is my only reviewer

A developer, who has been the sole developer at two companies for five years, including one with over 300,000 users, reflects on the lack of code reviews. They manage all aspects of development—backend, frontend, deploys, and the database—without any external review. This situation, which they previously considered normal for small companies, now prompts them to question its commonality after seeing a community discussion where merging one's own pull requests without review was deemed "insane."

This account offers a rare look into the reality of being the sole developer at a company with 300,000 users, unlike the common perception of mandatory code reviews.