Code review is burning out your best engineers
The New Stack 1 month ago 38 ● 7 sources
Code review is overloading senior engineers as AI-generated diffs remove the original intent, forcing reviewers to reverse-engineer decisions and spend more time verifying output they don’t enjoy. Engineers reported spending 77% less time writing code and teams with high AI adoption merged 98% more PRs with review times up 91%. The proposed fix shifts review work by codifying repeat feedback into invariants, preserving agent intent as acceptance criteria, and measuring the verification effort that prevents errors.