🔗 Every Layer of Review Makes You 10x Slower, apenwarr

I think we’re going to be stuck with these systems pipeline problems for a long time. Review pipelines — layers of QA — don’t work. Instead, they make you slower while hiding root causes. Hiding causes makes them harder to fix. But, the call of AI coding is strong. That first, fast step in the pipeline is so fast! It really does feel like having super powers. I want more super powers. What are we going to do about it? Maybe we finally have a compelling enough excuse to fix the 20 years of problems hidden by code review culture, and replace it with a real culture of quality. I think the optimists have half of the right idea. Reducing review stages, even to an uncomfortable degree, is going to be needed. But you can’t just reduce review stages without something to replace them. That way lies the Ford Pinto or any recent Boeing aircraft. The complete package, the table flip, was what Deming brought to manufacturing. You can’t half-adopt a “total quality” system. You need to eliminate the reviews and obsolete them, in one step.