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# The Death of the Code Review

AI coding agents have completely broken the traditional pull request. To survive this bottleneck, engineering teams must stop manually reading diffs and shift focus to automated runtime verification.

- **Speakers:** [Laurie Voss](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@laurie-voss)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Duration:** 32:34
- **URL:** https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100378-the-death-of-the-code-review
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