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Willison's Agentic Engineering Anti-Pattern: Never File a PR With AI-Generated Code You Haven't Personally Reviewed
Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns guide identifies 'inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators' as the highest-consequence anti-pattern: filing PRs where you haven't personally verified the code is functional is delegation of your work to reviewers under the disguise of a normal review request. The specific danger is that AI agents write plausible, detailed PR descriptions that make large surface-area diffs look routine, and reviewers approve them based on description confidence rather than code scrutiny. The countermeasure is a pre-PR personal audit gate: run the tests yourself, read the full diff, confirm the description matches what changed.
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