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There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
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There is more to code review than (automatable) detection

Hacker News·about 16 hours ago
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The abstract for article “ The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection ” paints this picture for the reader… Abstract – Code review has been the primary quality gate in software development since Fagan formalised code inspection in 1976. For five decades, having a human examine and comment on a colleague’s changes before merge has been a cornerstone practice at organisations of every size. Coding agents are large language model (LLM)-based autonomous systems capable of reading, writing, testing, and repairing software. We argue that coding agents have crossed a threshold of capability at which traditional human code review is no longer a necessary component of a software quality pipeline.…

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