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simonwillison.net · 2026-10-16 · Ranked: agentic + claude code match · practitioner analysis · fresh 0.96 · score 2.14

Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang

We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?" Asking that question also changed when review ha... Context & related coverage →

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