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Marc Brooker and Thorsten Ball converge on the same claim within 48 hours: humans should not routinely review code
Brooker, who works on agentic AI safety and policy at AWS, posted that "long-term, humans have no role in routinely reviewing code," conceding teams do it today for quality, understanding and compliance but arguing the industry should be working to make those reasons go away. Ball amplified it in Joy & Curiosity #100 on September 20 alongside his own "code review is already dead" essay. Two practitioners at very different vantage points, a hyperscaler infra principal and a coding-agent company engineer, landing on the same position in one week is the signal here; the open question neither answers is what replaces review as the compliance artifact.
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