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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.

Drawn from what David Crawshaw said

Subjectscoding agentscode generationsoftware quality
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code generation Machines emitting code and files, and whether the volume they produce is a cost somebody eventually pays.

software quality Whether a program is any good and how anyone would know: tests, review, debt, and what a suite cannot cover.

Mental modelSignalling

What David Crawshaw actually said

  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.

    Where this was said

    ↗The agent principal-agent problemcrawshaw.io

    7 May 2026

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