Coding agents can generate a plausible patch in minutes. The bottleneck moves to deciding whether the change belongs, whether its assumptions are sound, and whether the system remains operable afterward.
Review the evidence trail
A strong agent-authored change should arrive with the same evidence expected from a careful engineer: a bounded diff, tests tied to risk, explicit assumptions, and a clear description of what was not verified.
Keep changes legible
Large generated patches can be locally correct and globally exhausting. Teams should prefer small, reversible changes and treat reviewer comprehension as a hard delivery constraint.