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At the centre Review became a worse bottleneck under AI, because companies removed the review automation they had once AI started writing the code. Holds NFNicole Forsgren Read this korrent →

• Similar wording AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak. Holds NFNicole Forsgren
• Similar wording AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck. Holds MKMartin Kleppmann
• Similar wording AI has moved the programmer's bottleneck from writing code to having good design ideas, and there is no verification loop for a design idea. Holds MNMichael Nielsen
• Similar wording AI-validated pull requests beat human review at exactly the things humans are bad at, which frees the humans to argue about direction instead. Holds CMCharity Majors
• Similar wording Line-by-line code review has become an outdated ritual: senior engineers should be giving feedback on how their team instructs AI, not on the code AI wrote. Holds CHChip Huyen
• Similar wording The AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI. Holds NENeetCode
• Similar wording Humans keep their place in AI as judges rather than authors, because telling which of two answers is better is far easier than writing a good one. Holds NLNathan Lambert
• Similar wording Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away. Holds AMAdam Mosseri