The Next Frontier Isn't Writing Code. It's Reviewing It.

With agentic coding tools now mainstream, there is an emerging conversation about which parts of how we build software still make sense. Rethinking the old ceremonies is healthy and necessary. But the velocity these tools introduce comes with a new pressure. Writing is no longer the constraint. Reviewing is. Teams with high AI adoption are merging pull requests at a significantly higher rate, but review time is climbing with it. The choice becomes: lower the bar to keep pace, or hold the line and become the bottleneck to your own delivery. Most organizations are quietly doing one or the other without fully admitting it. Neither is a real solution. Some in the industry have landed on the conclusion: if the old gate can't keep up, remove it. Automate the review. Let AI write the code, and AI review it. Shift everything upstream to specs, and let the machines handle the rest. I think we should be more measured in our approach. The question is not whether to use these tools. The question i