A maintainer no longer needs to read every pull request; agents can sort the chaff and leave only the decisions worth a human.

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1. 26 Aug 2026

   David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

   Their wordsI'm not reviewing every pull request anymore. I haven't been reviewing them for quite some time now.

   spoken · official transcript hear it at 0:35:08 · all korents from this recording

   ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com

Where this collides

• In tension with

  However capable AI coding tools become, the industry will still need junior programmers, because someone must be able to vet what the machine produces.

  The first says the industry needs people who can check the machine’s output. The second is the same person reporting that he has stopped checking it himself and handed the checking to other agents. One is about what the industry needs and the other about what one maintainer does, so both can hold; the gap between them is exactly the question of who is left to do the vetting.

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