> AI now gives us near unlimited eyeballs
Except we won't get the expected benefit, because all those eyeballs are attached to a very small number of different "brains" (LLM models.)
The original saying depends on an implicit assumption that eyeballs are proportional to minds, and that among those varied independent scans, different people will catch what others miss.
In other words, we shouldn't assume 5.5x review thoroughness when we hire 11 QA eyeballs but they all belong to Bobby the Beholder.