TL;DR
AI makes writing code dramatically faster.
But that speed quietly breaks code reviews.
The problem isn’t large diffs.
The real problem is that reviewers no longer know where to start.
The fix is not “better reviews” — it’s better plans.
In AI-assisted development, a plan is not a TODO list.
A plan is:
- the unit of review (intent, scope, boundaries)
- the unit of generation (what AI should and should not change)
- the unit of knowledge (what gets promoted to docs later)
When plans are treated as first-class artifacts and committed to the repo:
- Reviews start from intent, not diff scanning
- PR sizes shrink structurally
- Human reviews focus on judgment, not syntax
- AI reviews become intent-aware
- Context window usage drops
- Future changes become cheaper
Plans are not documents. They are process.
If AI writes more code, humans must decide more clearly —
and plans are how we do that.
👉 Read the full article:
Why Plans Should Be First-Class Artifacts in AI-Assisted Development
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