Bittern and AI code review bots

CodeRabbit, Greptile, cubic and GitHub Copilot code review are bots: they read a pull request and post their own comments on it. Bittern is for the person reviewing after them: you read the change, an AI guide answers when you ask, and you post the comments that matter under your own name. Many teams will want both.

How they fit together

A review bot gives every pull request an automatic first pass and catches common mistakes before a person looks. Someone still has to approve the change, and that is where Bittern comes in: it helps that person understand what the code does, where it is called and why it changed, so the approval means something. The bot's comments appear alongside the others on the pull request in Bittern.

What each is good at

• Review bots: consistent automatic checks on every pull request, with no one needing to ask.
• Bittern: a person understanding a change well enough to own it, especially large or AI-written pull requests where skimming is tempting.

Git hosts

Most review bots support GitHub, and several support GitLab or Bitbucket too. Bittern supports GitHub today; GitLab and Bitbucket, including self-hosted, are planned.

Your code

Bittern acts as you, with your GitHub permissions, and the AI only sees code when you ask it something. Copies of repositories it keeps to answer questions are deleted after 7 days without use. See the privacy policy.

Price

Bittern is free during early access, with a fair daily limit on AI use.

Questions: contact@jamalmulla.dev