[majgr]

Please, do not. Nobody will do a real code review for such a person. Nobody will start a discussion if this or that change makes sense. If you have managerial position stick to it and do not make other people's lives miserable

[nixpulvis]

Depends a lot on the culture. I used to work for a small team of about 10-15 engineers and the CTO was a good person. He would write code about as much as the rest of us. He was just the leader, engi 0. So we treated his code reviews similarly. It was actually nice giving him review because asking questions would be met with more business context and would be a good way to learn about the development process.

Any good engineer will be grateful you find issues in their work, especially if you help track down solutions.

Of course, the CTO depending on AI to solve things may be less like that, IDK. Or even before AI I knew the type. I once gave a new CTO a whitepaper to read in private to understand some of the direction I was taking a project, and he basically flipped out. So YMMV.