How to Kill the Code Review — Ankit Jain, Aviator
AI-generated code volume has made traditional code review obsolete and actively harmful as a bottleneck.
“When AI write the code and AI review the code, why are we doing it in a UI?”
Ankit Jain of Aviator argues that AI-driven code generation has broken the traditional code review model, citing 861% code churn, 4x longer review wait times, and 30% of PRs merging without any review. He proposes replacing line-by-line review with a trust-based verification model. The insight that AI writing and reviewing code makes the human UI-based review loop vestigial is a sharp signal for how agentic development workflows will reshape engineering culture.