I push cursor-generated code without even looking at it. In fact, I haven't even looked at our codebase in months. All I interact with is the chat window. My teammates don't even read the PR's, they just trust the Copilot comments and approve. So far, nothing has broken. Any other teams doing it like this?
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As the saying goes since you Meta's can Code
You can lean to use a shovel to dig ditches on construction sites
AI vs. Engineer Overlords
Anyone else notice a certain class of long-tenured, well-connected engineers getting real quiet lately?
You know the ones. Own half the repos “by history.” Camp in approvals and support channels. Block merge requests from new or non-influential engineers for reasons:
• “I don’t like this pattern.”
• “We usually don’t do it this way.”
• “This feels risky.”
They’d always offer “alternatives,” but mostly superficial ones — renames, style rewrites, or busywork that adds no value and exists mainly to assert dominance.
Then AI entered code review.
Now:
• Reviews focus on correctness, not preferences.
• Style nitpicks don’t block shipping.
• Social connections don’t matter.
• Tests and results do.
Suddenly, the gatekeepers can’t bully through approvals or code owner lists, and new engineers actually get to ship if they do good work.
Watching support-channel emperors lose authority to an LLM that doesn’t care about tenure is oddly satisfying.
Turns out removing politics from code reviews gives everyone a fair shot.