Audio version (AI generated) Download the audio version It's 2020. You're the most senior person on your team, in charge of code quality and architecture. You've set up good engineering practices, you thoroughly review PRs from people who are less experienced than you and work hard to maintain a healthy codebase. Then at some point, you go on holiday. When you come back, the codebase is a mess. Everyone merged each other's PRs without really paying much attention, someone added a bunch of new tables to the database to denormalise it because it was easier and they added serverless or Kafka to the stack without any solid evidence that they needed either. It's okay. You can fix this. Fast forward to 2026. You haven't been on holiday. It's just a normal Monday morning. You make yourself a nice coffee, open your computer and find yourself with 7 PRs to review. You open the first one: +24506 -3938 lines, accompanied by some AI-generated description of what they're supposed to do.…