114: Building the builder: how CTOs fix the AI code review bottleneck
AI has made building software dramatically faster. The problem is that the rest of the engineering system hasn’t caught up.
AI agents can now produce code, tests, documentation, migrations, and pull requests at a pace most engineering organisations weren’t designed to handle. But when everything around code review accelerates, review becomes the bottleneck. Pull requests pile up, reviewers spend more time reconstructing intent, and experienced engineers can end up reduced to repeatedly saying yes or sending work back for fixes.
Adam Horner explores why making code review faster isn’t…
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