Thorsten Ball publishes his predictions and leads with "Code review will die. I mean: it's already dead."
In a September 19 essay, Ball argues most predictions about software development are far too conservative and stakes out four: code review is already dead because humans cannot find bugs in model-written code in reasonable time, the terminal is dead and CLI tools will no longer be used by humans, some people will be "priced out of producing software" by token budgets and fall into a second league, and there will still be people paid to write code in ten years but "do you want to have that job?" His framing is that tokens are the new computing paradigm and the craft shifts from code quality to composing systems. For builders the practical read is his pricing claim, not the obituaries: if token capacity determines who can ship, agent-harness efficiency becomes a competitive moat rather than a cost line.
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