Why Code Review is More Crucial Than Ever in the AI Era

The hardest part of your sprint is no longer writing the code. It's reading it.

That inversion is the most underrated story in AI-assisted development. The tools that promise 10× output deliver it — and then immediately create a queue at the review door. The old bottleneck was the keyboard. The new bottleneck is the reviewer.

A recent post on Medium frames this well: as Code Review in the Age of AI puts it, the volume and shape of PRs has shifted faster than the review process did, and "Approve" has started to drift toward rubber stamp. The piece is worth your time. The numbers are concrete. Same four developers, same two designated reviewers.

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