[locknitpicker]

> This is also why I’m not a fan of code reviews.

That's specious reasoning. Code reviews are a safeguard against cowboy coding, and a tool to enforce shared code ownership. You might believe you know better than most of your team members, but odds are a fresh pair of eyes can easily catch issues you snuck in your code that you couldn't catch due to things like PR tunnel vision.

And if your PR is sound, you certainly don't have a problem explaining what you did and why you did it.

[strogonoff]

Code reviews have their place. I just personally don’t like being the reviewer, because it’s more effort on your part than just writing the damn thing from scratch while someone else gets the credit for the result[0]. Of course, having multiple pairs of eyes on the code and multiple people who understand it is crucial.

[0] Reviews are OK if I enjoy working with the person whose work I’m reviewing and I feel like I’m helping them grow.