AnalysisOpinion / analysisApplications · Policy & Regulation · Agents & Tool Use1 source · Oct 16, 2026

Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang

We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?"

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Key points

  • Asking that question also changed when review happens.
  • Before, review was a gate at the end of the road: write the code, open a PR, wait for your colleague.
  • — Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang, How the Claude Code team does code review
  • Tags: anthropic, claude, ai, claude-code, llms, addy-osmani, coding-agents, generative-ai, agentic-engineering, code-review

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  • [1]Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
    Simon Willison's Weblog · Oct 16, 10:06 PM
    We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?"
    Asking that question also changed when review happens.

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