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Code review as a review mechanism depends on reviewers being able to infer effort from reading code, and AI-agent-generated code erases that signal.

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Subjectcode generation
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code generation Machines emitting code and files, and whether the volume they produce is a cost somebody eventually pays.

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  1. David Crawshaw

    Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale

    the reviewer is the principal, the contributor is the agent, and code review only worked because the reviewer could cheaply infer effort from reading the code. Agents collapse that signal.

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    ↗The agent principal-agent problemcrawshaw.io

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