Engineer laments AI replacing human collaboration in software development
mgill25 · x · 2026-08-17
A senior engineer expressed concern that AI is replacing human collaboration in software engineering. Despite having more docs, longer PR descriptions, and faster cycle times, teams are essentially talking to agents instead of each other. Code reviews have become absurd with diffs too large to read, relying on generated summaries, where reviewers prompt instead of reading code.
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