Letting Go: AI Code Review

A developer reflects on their team's new policy allowing AI tool approval alone to merge pull requests, replacing mandatory human code review. The post covers personal feelings about losing a valued part of the job, mixed team reactions ranging from excitement about velocity gains to concerns about code quality and requirements validation, and the norms the team agreed on: keeping all team members notified of PRs, requiring human review for model and API changes, leaving non-trivial logic changes to the author's discretion, and investing more in automated test coverage to compensate for reduced human oversight.