Just give it to AI might be the most dangerous phrase in software development right now.
I've said it myself. Handed off a task, watched clean-looking code come back in seconds, skimmed it, and moved on because it looked right and the tests were green.
Then I reviewed a PR that wasn't mine to write, just mine to check. AI-generated, clean, organized, passing every test I threw at it. I approved it the way I'd approve anything that looked competent on the surface.
The bug showed up later. Not in review, not in testing. In production, after the code had already been trusted for a while. Nothing about it had looked wrong. That was the actual problem: it wasn't obviously wrong, it was quietly wrong, in the specific way that only announces itself once real conditions hit it.
I went back afterward and sat with that PR properly. Not skimming this time. Actually reading it, actually understanding what it was doing and why, actually treating the review like the real work instead of the formality before merging. It took a lot longer than approving it had. It's the only way I'd have caught it before production did.
