arxivcs.SEcs.AI2026-07-08
3100 Opinions on Code Review in an AI World: Building Causal Theory from Practitioner Discourse
Shyam Agarwal, Courtney Miller, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu
Coding agents now author entire pull requests, and practitioners sharply disagree about what this does to code review: whether it becomes the bottleneck, whether human review is still necessary, and whether it quietly erodes the understanding that it once built. Repository-mining…