Honeycomb CTO: AI is Reshaping Software Engineering and Code Reviews Are Overrated
The Pragmatic Engineer · rss · 2026-08-13
Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, shared her evolving views on AI-assisted coding on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, discussing its profound impact on software engineering.
- The Turning Point: Late 2025 was critical. Tools like Claude Code turned programming harnesses into serious infrastructure, making AI's impact comparable to cloud computing in 2010.
- Code as Cattle: Hand-writing code will become expensive. Code might transition from "pets" to "cattle," where problematic code is regenerated rather than manually fixed.
- Code Reviews Overrated: Humans are poor at checking syntax and bugs. Code review is the least valuable part of engineering; focus should shift to validation and observability.
- DevOps Failed: The 20-year DevOps movement to make developers understand production environments has failed.
- Career Advice: Engineering directors should embrace AI immediately. Future interviews will filter out candidates without AI experience.
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