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Skimming AI-Written Code Is a Bet: Review the Structure, Not the Diff

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Pere Pages
Software Engineer
A small figure inspects a single glowing brick through a large magnifying glass while the whole brick tower above leans badly out of true; an architectural blueprint lies unrolled and ignored under their feet

When a coding agent writes most of the code, reading every diff stops being realistic, and "reading diagonally" — skimming — becomes the default. It is a real bet, not a safe one: architecture doesn't break in any single diff, it erodes across all of them, and skimming checks exactly the part that was never the problem.