Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve
About this episode
In this episode, Claire Vo discusses building an AI code review bot to manage PR backlogs efficiently.
AI writes most of my code now, and that created a new problem: a PR queue I couldn’t keep up with. In this episode, I walk through how I built Merge Mommy, a Vercel Eve agent that reads every PR after checks pass, scores it across six risk dimensions, auto-approves the low-risk ones, and pings me in Slack for anything that needs a human. I built the whole thing in one Codex session, it’s SOC 2 compatible, and it’s already cleared my backlog. What you’ll learn: Why AI-generated PRs create a review bottleneck and why the answer isn’t reviewing all of them How Intercom 5x’d PR approval speed and reduced revert rates by putting AI in the review loop Why Vercel Eve is the simplest framework I’ve found for deploying AI agents in Slack and GitHub How I built a full PR review agent in Codex with one prompt and a few steering turns The six components I use to score PR risk (blast radius, reversibility, data security, ops impact, verification gap, and change surface) How I used Chrome browser use to handle Slack bot and GitHub app configuration so I never had to click through setup screens manually Why auto-approved PRs can be SOC 2 compliant as long as the process is auditable, queryable…
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