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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