SMRTR ProgrammingJul 28, 2026Hacker News

Code review (as we know it) needs to die

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Async, diff-centric code review — unchanged for ~20 years — is now the bottleneck killing AI-driven engineering velocity. As agents generate code faster than humans can review it, traditional PR review breaks down across defect catching, knowledge sharing, and risk routing. The fix isn't better tooling on top of the old process; it's rebuilding review around design alignment, automated adversarial passes, and risk-based routing.

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