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A person directing an AI agent rather than writing code themselves has no incentive to actually read the resulting code or engage seriously with reviewer feedback.

Drawn from what David Crawshaw said

Subjectscoding agentsAI agents
What this subject means

AI agents Agents beyond the editor: software that acts on your behalf, and what independence it should be given.

Mental modelIncentives

What David Crawshaw actually said

  1. David Crawshaw Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale
    There is no incentive for the human driving the agent to actually read the code or spend time thinking about what the reviewer says.

    Where this was said

    ↗The agent principal-agent problemcrawshaw.io

    7 May 2026

    All 3 korrents from this piecethis one is 2nd

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