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Summary
Addy Osmani reflects on the historical role of human code review in ensuring code quality and begins exploring how that applies to AI agents.
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Agentic Code Quality
For much of human history, we’ve evaluated code quality via code review: someone reads what you wrote and makes sure it’s clean, thoughtful, fast, understandable, and tests well. For agents, that
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