Software Engineering · 1 min read
Code Review in the Age of LLMs
When machines write more of the code, reviewing it becomes the real skill. How teams are adapting their review culture.
By Saifulah Katpar · August 12, 2026
A growing share of pull requests are now drafted by models. The bottleneck has moved: writing code is cheap, understanding it is not.
Review for intent, not syntax
Linters and models catch style issues. Human reviewers should ask: does this change do the right thing, and is it the simplest way to do it?
Smaller changes, always
Large AI-generated diffs are tempting. Break them up anyway. A reviewer who skims is not reviewing.
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