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Agentic Code Review
Coding agents moved the hard part of engineering from writing code to deciding whether to trust it, making review the most leveraged skill in software now that the old happy accident no longer holds. The 2026 data converges: Faros AI's 22,000-developer study found code churn up 861%, per-developer defect rate up from 9% to 54%, review duration up 441%, and zero-review merges up 31%, while GitClear shows 4x raw output for ~12% delivered-value gain, the gap being the review problem in one line.
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