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title: 'No More Code Reviews: Lights-Out Codebases Ahead'
url: >-
  https://molochinations.substack.com/p/no-more-code-reviews-lights-out-codebases
author: Philip Su
original_published: '2026-03-06'
noted_on: '2026-05-25'
tags:
  - ai
  - engineering
---

The two important observations here — that human code actually contains far
more bugs than you realize, and that AI is superior to humans at code review
itself — I anecdotally find to be true in my personal experience and in the
experience of colleagues. Many in my network are still really against this
entire idea, and while I empathize with aspects of the code-as-craft
disappearing, I find it impossible to side with the anti-AI crowd now. They
don't look informed anymore. They look out of touch. And scared. Not a good
look, and not a good way to think about your career going forward.