Code Review Is Now an AI-vs-AI Loop Where Humans Just Copy-Paste
dotey · x · 2026-09-12
An account describes how code review is collapsing into an agent-driven loop at some companies: one engineer has an Agent review a PR and pastes the results as comments, the author feeds those comments back to their Agent to fix, and the loop repeats — with humans mainly doing the copy-pasting.
The darker twist: some engineers deliberately use hyper-critical prompts to get the Agent to block colleagues' PRs. You can't argue with the Agent because you can't argue with the person baiting it — leaving everyone more tired, burning tons of tokens, with no real efficiency gain. "The Agent is innocent; the humans are the problem."
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