Code Review Is Dead. AI Killed It. Here’s What Replaces It.
The coding bottleneck didn’t disappear with AI β it relocated from code generation to code review. Human review speed hasn’t improved since the 1970s, but code production speed has exploded. The real crisis isn’t AI writing bad code; it’s the growing gap between what we produce and what we verify. The solution isn’t reviewing more code β it’s controlling agent scope, building automated guardrails, and reserving human oversight for irreversible changes like database migrations and access policies.