Code review is dead, long live code review
Summary
With AI-generated code proliferating, traditional manual code reviews struggle to keep up. The article presents two camps: abandon reviews to accelerate velocity or adopt a 'compound engineering' approach in which dozens of specialized agents review code in parallel, each focusing on a different aspect such as security, performance, and data model. It proposes a hybrid workflow where agent findings inform human decisions, and notes this model works best for seasoned engineers while posing challenges for juniors and for large, multi-person codebases.