Thorsten Ball leads his predictions with "code review will die. I mean: it's already dead."

In a September 19 essay Ball stakes out four positions: code review is already dead because humans can't 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 there will still be people paid to write code in ten years but "do you want to have that job?" Marc Brooker, who works on agentic AI safety at AWS, posted within 48 hours 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 work to make those reasons go away. Two people at very different vantage points landing in the same place is the signal. Neither answers what replaces review as the compliance artifact, and the voxium account above is what the gap looks like from inside.