AI is Writing More Of Our Code Than Ever So Why is Code Review Suddenly Breaking Down?

AI now writes a huge share of production code, and that sounds like a win until the review queue starts choking on it. Teams are shipping faster, yes, but they’re also reviewing more code they didn’t fully think through, didn’t fully trace, and sometimes don’t fully trust. That is the real problem. Code review was built for human-paced change, not machine-speed output. So the bottleneck moved. Writing got cheap. Understanding did not. If your pull requests feel bigger, noisier, and harder to v...