Sourcegraph: AI writes code faster than teams can review it, driving more outages
AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-11-02
In an AI Engineer talk, Andrew Norrish of Sourcegraph argues that AI has moved the engineering bottleneck from writing code to reviewing it, and unreviewed AI code is driving more production outages that leave SREs firefighting.
Key points:
- Code review is the new bottleneck, and hiring more SREs isn't the fix;
- Industry data shows AI-driven development is producing more outages, making SRE and platform teams more important than ever;
- He demonstrates how code search and a code-graph context engine help teams investigate, prevent, and remediate issues across huge codebases.
Chapters cover the story of AI-driven development, the review bottleneck, industry data, investigation/prevention/remediation, and customer examples.
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