Code Reviews Need to Evolve (latent.space) AI

The article argues that traditional human code reviews are becoming infeasible as code changes grow and AI-generated code increases review time and effort. It proposes shifting review “upstream” to human-authored specs and acceptance criteria, with automated, deterministic verification (tests, type checks, contracts), layered trust gates, restricted agent permissions, and adversarial verification by separate agents. The overall point is to replace approval-by-reading-diffs with approval-by-verifying intent and constraints before code is generated.