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AI Code Review: The Hidden Bottleneck Nobody's Talking About
Process-MethodologyDevelopment-Practices
Feb 6, 2026
8 minutes

AI Code Review: The Hidden Bottleneck Nobody's Talking About

Here’s a problem that’s creeping up on engineering teams: AI tools are dramatically increasing the volume of code being produced, but they haven’t done anything to increase code review capacity. The bottleneck has shifted.

Where teams once spent the bulk of their time writing code, they now spend increasing time reviewing code—much of it AI-generated. And reviewing AI-generated code is harder than reviewing human-written code in ways that aren’t immediately obvious.