'Code Review Is Dead' Debate: Nobody Reads Agent-Generated Diffs

Developers including prasenx argue that code review is effectively dead: not because AI-written code is good, but because humans no longer read agent-generated diffs of 2,000 to 8,294 lines line by line, a widely known but unacknowledged reality that sparked debate.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-13 · 3 related posts

• "Code review is dead": nobody actually reads 2000-line agent diffs — andreisavu · 2026-11-12
• "Code review is dead": nobody actually reads an 8,294-line agent diff — prasenx · 2026-11-13

1 near-duplicate retellings: prasenx