It's an unfortunate reality, but one of the few things we know about software quality is that lines of code is positive correlated with bugs, or as Notorious B.I.G. would say, "Mo Code Mo Problems". Code review faces a similar challenge: the larger a patch you're reviewing, the less effective your code review is [1]. There's a few reasons for this: The more code you're changing, the more you need to focus on the big picture.
