The Death of the Code Review: What the Data Actually Says — Laurie Voss, Arize AI
Summary
Developers using autonomous agents wrote 741% more code but shipped only 30% more software. The bottleneck is human review, and "just review harder" doesn't scale. Reviewer effectiveness collapses pas
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Transcript Excerpt
Hello everybody. Thank you for following on a session about the death of the code review with a session about the death of the code review. Uh who knows howululing decisions get made, but uh Swix decided it would be funny for those two to be backtoback. Uh, hi. Uh, I'm Lori. I'm head of developer relations at Arise AI. Uh, some of you may remember me from when I used to co-found npm, Inc. These days, I think about AI and how to test it. Uh, I'm here to talk about a problem that everyone is seeing right now. The rise of AI agents has dramatically increased how fast developers can produce code. Uh, but the speed at which humans can review code. Uh, yeah, I am having a talk right now. Thank you, notion. very good reminder. Uh the team the speed at which humans can review code has stayed exact…
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