How to Kill the Code Review

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Human-written code died in 2025. Code review is dying in 2026. Teams with high AI adoption are

merging 98% more pull requests, but PR review time has surged 91%. There is no way we win this fight

with manual code reviews, and AI code review tools are just buying us time. This talk makes the case

that the traditional code review is a historical approval gate that no longer fits the shape of

modern software development. I'll walk through a practical five-layer trust model: from multi-agent

competition and deterministic guardrails to spec-driven BDD and adversarial verification — that lets

engineering teams ship faster without sacrificing quality or control.

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