The compiler was never the first reviewer
2026.266The compiler screened a human's type errors so a human could read the rest. An agent changes who reads - Go's zero values never reached the screen.
Code-Review
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What I meant to say
2026.265Arcanist made intent first-class. Claude Code moved it to the prompt. The developer went from author to auditor - and nothing enforces what I meant to say.
Verification Theater
2026.176The deploy broke. The checks were green. The mechanism measures what it can see - and what it can't see is everything that breaks.
The mechanism is the enforcement
2026.158Three AI code-review tools sit on the same model. The one that guarantees coverage did it with a for-loop, not a better prompt.
The review that happened too late
2026.140The PR has 47 comments. None of them are about the approach.
Reviewing code that looks right
2026.133The old failure mode was reading every line equally. The new one is trusting code that looks right.
The codebase heard them
2026.118A dev who didn't speak in meetings and whose PRs were the conversation.
The detection trap
2026.067When quality looks suspicious, people stop producing quality.
The senior who stopped coding
2026.020Pattern recognition lives in the practice. The flinch that catches the N+1 query doesn't survive a full calendar.
Coding with LLMs
2026.013The bugs are quieter now. Just wrong assumptions buried in correct-looking code.
2013
On Phabricator
2013.244Phabricator changed what code review means to me. A note from a few months in.