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# The Death of the Code Review


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

LLM-accelerated coding has dramatically increased the pace at which developers can fix bugs and write whole new features. But a lot of companies that have wholeheartedly embraced AI assistance for coding have discovered that with coding fast, new points in the software development lifecycle become the bottleneck. In particular, if people are writing code 2x, 5x or 10x faster, how do you review all that code?

This talk explores the current landscape of solutions to this extremely timely problem, including changing job titles, building guardrails, writing far more detailed product specifications and tests, using yet more LLMs to review the PRs themselves, and a surprisingly frequently-cited alternative: just ship stuff slower.

## Speaker

### [Laurie Voss](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@laurie-voss)

Head of Developer Relations


## Related talks at this congress

- [When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1709-when-humans-stop) — Simon Auer
- [From Model Selection to Smart Routing: How to Use the Right LLM for Every Task](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1433-from-model-selection) — Viktoria Semaan
- [There's no dark factory without better software verifiers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1742-there-s-no-dark) — Dexter Horthy
- [Don’t kill my Vibes - Simple Steps to Stay Secure when Vibe Coding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1413-don-t-kill-my-vibes) — Isaac Evans

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