The new bottleneck: Code Reviews It is 2026, and 90% of developers use AI to write their...
The new bottleneck: Code Reviews
It is 2026, and 90% of developers use AI to write their code.
(I made that number up)
Over the last 10 years we more or less solved software development. Code reviews, testing, QA, agile, Kanban, small teams — we knew what good looked like.
In theory, anyway.
AI coding tools boosted development speed by 21–35%, but PR review capacity didn't scale with it. Reviewers became the…
Here is what happened to code review in 2026. AI writes the code. AI reviews the code. A human clicks...
With increased adoption of AI, there is often an argument that code-reviews are now the new...
Writing code got cheap. Reviewing it didn't, and the bottleneck quietly moved somewhere the tools aren't looking.
Coding agents draft specs, architecture docs, changelogs, and README updates in seconds — but a human...
Your Codebase Deserves Better Code Reviews — Here's How AI Changes That Real talk: manual...
