AI Coding Assistants Shifted the Bottleneck From Writing to Review
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TL;DR — Coding assistants have made writing code nearly free, but they haven't made reviewing, verifying, and trusting that code any cheaper. The result is a new bottleneck — the diff tax — that most tooling still ignores because it's optimized for generation speed, not reviewability. The teams get…
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- 2026-10-01 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
AI Coding Assistants Shifted the Bottleneck From Writing to Review