Reviewing code in the agent era

Like a lot of people who build software, I felt the ground shift at the start of 2026. The models got better, the agents got better with them, and almost overnight the amount of code moving through my team went up. Between January and March our total issues created and PRs merged both climbed by 50%. That was exciting, and it was also a problem. With that much code moving, I felt the pull to “looks good!” my way through reviews just to keep the queue down, and that sat badly with me, because qua