Do you still need code review in the AI era? Testing, canary and rollback vs. human eyes
dotey · x · 2026-10-12
A debate over whether code review remains essential in the AI era:
- The original poster argues "humans must code review / humans find the global optimum" is overconfidence; software quality has always come from testing, canary rollouts, rollback monitoring, and user feedback — not manual review. Code from Claude Code and Grok Bot works fine in production.
- dotey responds: code review is just one quality instrument, and many people didn't review code seriously before AI either — no need for doomsaying.
- The core challenge: if you believe AI-written code is worse, prove it with mathematical rigor.
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