AI Ships Faster Than Anyone Can R...
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AI Ships Faster Than Anyone Can Review It

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The Human in the Loop by Enrique Cordero

Episode notes

Meta says AI writes 80% of new code. Their own reviewers can't keep up with their own AI.

Straight from their engineering blog.

They built RADAR to auto-review low-risk diffs because "the share of diffs receiving timely review has declined." Their words. AI-generated code outpaced human review capacity.

Read that with the rest of the week's news.

Cognition says Devin merged 7x more PRs year-over-year. AI-written commits inside customer codebases jumped from 16% to 80%. Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on Wednesday, and every IDE, gateway, and agent runner had it the same day. They also disclosed a $47B revenue run-rate. The "is this a real business" debate is over.

But here is what keeps coming back to me:

Shipping more code faster is only a win if the systems that catch problems scale at the same rate. This week, th ... 

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