Code Review in the Age of Agents
In World War I, new technology like the machine gun, barbed wire, and artillery suddenly shifted the balance from offense to defense. Cavalry charges were out — trenches and machine guns were in. The same epochal shift is happening right now in software engineering, but on the side of offense. AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) have made writing code dramatically faster. But reviewing code – defense – is still happening at human speed. The bottleneck has flipped. ...