"First, the easy and obvious one: code review. CTOs keep asking me if code review is really dead. The answer: Not Yet. But it will be by next year. You can't work at agentic speeds and block everything with human reviews. Those are incompatible. Your competitors are going to be moving at agentic speeds, so you're fucked in the medium-term if you stick with human code reviews. That's about as bare as I can make it for you.Whenever someone says code reviews are going away, someone else says "SOC 2." Somehow SOC 2 spread through the industry without any actual laws being passed, as far as I can tell, which is bizarre. But big enterprise clients will require their vendors to be SOC 2 compliant, for auditing purposes. And many people interpret it as requiring human code reviews.As a result, human approval is currently baked into many companies' audited change-management controls and customer commitments. But the writing is on the wall: agentic throughput will straight-up force those controls to be rewritten. SOC 2 will no doubt survive, but "review" will no longer mean one human approving every diff.Upshot: in the short term, yes, keep reviewing agent code. Fable is the only reasonably trustworthy model in existence today, and you're not going to want to use it much due to its exorbitant pricing. But in seven months, all the models will be that smart, and inference will be much cheaper. Plan now for that day to arrive, and get ready to replace your human code review with many, many rounds of agentic code review.It will go better for you anyway. Humans suuuuck at code review. I've been doing this for forty years, and all I've seen is decades of thinly-disguised LGTMs. Just let it go, mate. It's almost time."yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-t#AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #CodeReviews #CICD