AI coding agents: the hidden cost of human review
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Coding agents can keep working until a change is ready to merge. Someone still has to decide whether it belongs in the project. Augur follows AI-native projects closing outside pull requests while running agents internally, and asks whether cheaper code generation has moved the cost onto reviewers.
For engineering and business leaders, the practical starting point is the last 20 merged changes: compare review rounds and time to merge, then investigate differences in size, difficulty, and quality before buying more capacity. The episode develops a bounded queue-limit pilot…
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