Is writing code with an agent the same thing as pair programming?
That question has been going around lately, and there's a practical consequence sitting inside it that I don't see many people chasing down.
On a lot of teams, code that a pair of devs wrote gets a lighter code review.
I personally have never seen that written down anywhere. It's not in a policy doc and nobody voted on it. But everywhere I have worked, when a PR came from two people who built and tested it together, the review was lighter. Reviewers trusted the code more. Fewer issues got found in review. Fewer bugs slipped through afterward. So the lighter review kept looking like the right call, and it stuck.
That's a risk decision, even though it never feels like one. Somebody looked at a category of change and decided it needed less scrutiny than everything else.
