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Teams drowning in AI-written code are splitting review into three layers instead of reading more diffs
An ESEM 2026 practitioner study (arXiv 2608.26316, 2026-08-26) describes teams abandoning review-centric quality control as AI raises code volume, and replacing it with layered supervision: preventive guardrails that encode architectural intent up front, executable guardrails built from repurposed linting, testing and CI, and human oversight moved from line-by-line reading to architectural reasoning. The named structure is the contribution; the study is five interviews plus a survey and reports no measured effects, so treat it as a vocabulary for a reorganization rather than evidence it works.
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