The Most Important Decision You'll Make as an Engineer This Year
The single most important decision an engineer must make today is a binary choice regarding their role in the software development lifecycle.
Option A: Continue reviewing code line-by-line as if a human wrote it. This path guarantees you become the bottleneck, stifling your team's throughput.
Option B: Evolve your review policy, relinquishing low-level implementation control to AI to unlock high-level architectural velocity.
If you choose Option A, this article is not for you. You will likely continue to drown in an ever-increasing tide of pull requests until external metrics force a change.
If you choose Option B, you are ready for a paradigm shift. However, blindly "letting AI code" without a governance system invites chaos. You need robust strategies to maintain system quality without scrutinizing every line of implementation. Here are the five strategies that make Option B a reality.