Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Why review, not writing, is the 2026 bottleneck Two years ago the slow part of shipping software was writing it. That is no longer true for most teams I work with. A coding agent will produce a 600-line pull request in the time it takes to make a coffee, and then a second one, and a third. The pull requests arrive faster than anyone can read them, and the reading is now the constraint. If you run an engineering team in Bengaluru or London and your merge queue has started to look like a motorway at rush hour, you are not imagining it. The telemetry says the same thing. Faros AI's 2025 study of more than 10,000 developers across 1,255 teams found that developers on teams with high AI adoption completed 21 per cent more tasks and merged 98 per cent more pull requests, but PR review time rose…
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