GitHub CEO Predicts Humans Will Stop Reading Code Line by Line
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-12
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke predicts that humans will stop reviewing code line by line in the future. As AI agents generate more code than any human can hold context for, manually checking every line will turn the human reviewer into a bottleneck.
Instead of inspecting every line, developers should shift to comparing the AI's session logs (the original intent) against the generated code to ensure the agent delivered the desired outcome.
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