"Code review is dead": nobody actually reads 2000-line agent diffs
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-12
Ican Varadar sparked debate by arguing that code review is effectively dead—not because agents write great code, but because nobody actually reads 2000-line diffs and everyone knows it. Andrei Savu amplified it as "an inconvenient truth in many teams." The point hits a real pain of the AI coding era: agent-generated large-scale changes are rendering traditional line-by-line human review meaningless, forcing teams toward new verification workflows.
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