The Code Nobody Reads
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Opinion — commentary, not a factual news event.
The article argues that AI-assisted coding is shifting software teams away from line-by-line code reading toward automated, agent-augmented review while keeping a human owner responsible for what ships. In Anthropic’s reported Q2 2026 baseline, engineers merged about eight times as much code per day as in 2024, with people directing and reviewing rather than typing. As a result, teams must redesign checks, accountability, and mentoring so trust moves from diffs to tests and review tooling without leaving backlog/incident risk unaddressed.
Why it matters
The article argues that you should build checks you actually trust—especially for code “you don’t read.” With agents changing code, “the craft” shifts to the parts that determine whether code deserves to be trusted.