, 8 min read
Code reviews made sense when coding was slow and expensive. Then AI broke the rules. Thousands of lines a minute, reviews still taking hours, senior engineers drowning. The fix isn't more AI. It's moving the leverage upstream: stop reviewing what was built, start aligning on what will be built.
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24 Nov 2025, 5 min read
The era of the coder is over. As AI agents handle coding and the Great Squeeze collapses org charts, engineers are pushed into Tech Lead-level work. The new archetype emerges. AI Lead, an experienced orchestrator commanding a fleet of agents to autonomously deliver entire streams of work.