AI-Powered Code Review Assistant for Streamlining Pull Request Merging

WatsonX, a comprehensive data and AI platform, adeptly addresses contemporary challenges by meticulously training, validating, tuning, and deploying data to drive impactful business outcomes. The intricate task of timely merging Pull Requests (PRs) poses a significant challenge for software development teams, directly influencing business operations. This paper introduces an innovative solution leveraging AI, particularly harnessing generative AI techniques with the Falcon40-B model through the platform. The AI bot facilitates an initial PR review, offering insightful feedback on code formatting, best practices, and minor issues and streamlines collaboration by automatically assigning and notifying PR reviewers. The overarching goal is the continuous evolution of this AI bot into an intelligent reviewer, capable of assessing code from a functional standpoint. The implementation of this solution holds the promise of significantly enhancing PR management and expediting the entire development workflow.