Every few months it feels like I have moved further up the chain. Now I don’t even look at a PR until it’s been coded and gone through at least 2 AI reviews (always different families). Code is truly cheap. I can have the pipeline produce an entire feature as a thought experiment just to see if the shape is the right fit for the codebase. People like to throw the slop term around a lot. It feels like the opposite of slop through. I can have things written and rewritten as many times as it takes until I’m happy with them.
The weakness I see in this is there at the end. The agents never want to throw things away. They just want to keep adding and adding. I think this is my real value in the chain. That intuition built up over years that says this isn’t right yet or that little tingle in your brain that you’ve laid a landline that you are going to step on in 6 months.