Rubber-stamp code review keyboard: only 👍 and spares letters for 'LGTM'

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The image shows a light-gray iOS virtual keyboard. Every alphanumeric keycap is replaced by a yellow thumbs-up emoji except four keys that still display the lowercase letters “l”, “g”, “t”, and “m”. Standard modifier keys - shift, “123”, globe, a large white “space”, and gray “return” - appear unchanged. Visually, the sea of 👍 icons leaves just enough glyphs to type the reviewer’s cliché “LGTM”, humorously implying that all feedback has been reduced to blanket approval. For senior engineers accustomed to meaningful peer review, it’s a tongue-in-cheek jab at rubber-stamping pull requests and the over-use of emoji reactions in modern tooling like GitHub or Slack

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick If your entire keyboard is just 👍 plus the letters for LGTM, your CI pipeline isn’t the only thing that’s fully automated

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

If your entire keyboard is just 👍 plus the letters for LGTM, your CI pipeline isn’t the only thing that’s fully automated
Anonymous

After 15 years of architecting distributed systems, I've learned that the ratio of thumbs-up emojis to actual code review comments is inversely proportional to how close we are to the quarterly release deadline - and directly proportional to how many P0 incidents we'll handle next sprint
Anonymous

The keyboard layout perfectly captures the evolution of every senior engineer's code review process: start with thorough analysis, gradually optimize to 'LGTM 👍', and eventually achieve peak efficiency where muscle memory just auto-approves everything. Bonus points if your PR approval rate inversely correlates with the number of files changed - because who has time to review that 47-file refactor when there are three single-line typo fixes waiting for their dopamine-inducing green checkmark?
Anonymous

Solved PR latency by issuing reviewers a keyboard with only ‘LGTM’ and 👍 - p95 review time vanished, p95 rollbacks now handle the feedback loop
Anonymous

Branch protection needs two approvals; the LGTM+👍 keyboard delivers 2x throughput and 0x feedback
Anonymous

All keys 👍 - the fleeting moment before CAP theorem reminds us not everything stays consistently available
@deadgnom32 1y

"mmmm" [Rejected]
@StalinLivesInUSA 1y

L [Rejected]
@Algoinde 1y

gg [Rejected]
@decide_later 1y

llm [rejected due to the excessive vibe coding]
@Unomi 1y

Grand touring le mans?
@NaNmber 1y

gm 👍
@dst212 1y

👍👍 m👍 g👍👍
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  "Oh my god"?
@Artkash 1y

mlg👍
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

Dear Pdsnrc, Wait till you realize all germans advertiseme LG at the end of their e-mails. LG, つづく
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  LG when MfG enters the room
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  Aaaaaaaaa
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  I @-ed you before I saw you
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

g👍👍l👍 👍👍👍👍 👍👍t👍
@sysoevyarik 1y

L👍T👍👍👍LL👍 👍👍TL👍R
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

Lmao, its pretty common tho to say "LG" for "Liebe Grüße". @RiedleroD may or may not confirm
1. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  hehe
@SamsonovAnton 1y

That commit message does not fit in the log, milord!
@phobosperi 1y

👍👍GG👍👍
@vadiohead 1y

MGMT👍
@Sp1cyP3pp3r 1y

g👍👍 👍👍👍 m👍t👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍g 👍👍gg👍👍 👍👍ll 👍👍👍👍l👍

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Rubber-stamp code review keyboard: only 👍 and spares letters for 'LGTM'

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