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Public story · 2026-08-24 · high
The reviewer counts how many new findings trace back to its own previous fix round, a pattern behind about a third of findings across six PRs studied.
Why now: The pull request that introduces this check also carries the six-PR analysis behind it, as of August 24.
Qwen-code's review loop writes a blocking finding when a pull request's fixes stop converging, according to the pull request introducing it.
A review loop that keeps finding new bugs can look productive while a PR never converges. The analysis behind this feature found about a third of post-initial findings across six multi-round PRs traced back to the immediately preceding fix round.
Each review round reports two counts: how many findings are new, and how many of those trace back to fixes from the round before.
When most of a round's new findings are self-inflicted two rounds in a row, the loop won't accept another patch. It writes its own blocking finding and tells the author to split the change instead.
Most of those self-inflicted findings were guards added to satisfy an earlier finding, with no test written to cover them.
If the guard-without-test pattern holds up across more PRs, it argues for checking whether a fix's guard has a test before marking a finding resolved.
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