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by snowmobile 144 days ago
> code review—not code generation—is now the bottleneck to shipping great products.

Unsurprising, since a human still needs to understand and verify the code, be that as it's written or as it's reviewed. AI's only managed to move the brainpower required from the fun part to the tedious and boring part.

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Eh, code review has _always_ been the bottleneck (both for the author and any other reviewers). Pulling the agent slot machine for anything remotely challenging is just inflicting pain for no reason on yourself - if quality matters. If not, let it rip.

Otherwise, you’re gonna have to read every line (including those not in the diff) anyways. Typing it out - or getting the AI to do it at a speed you can comprehend - isn’t a meaningful slowdown at all.