Working with Coding Agents
The review is the part that was never delegable. It is also the part that gets skipped first.
Removed code hides the surprises
Additions announce themselves; removals do not. Behaviour disappears in the lines that are no longer there.
The edges of the change
- Dependency manifests and lock files.
- Build and CI configuration.
- Anything reading an environment variable or a secret.
- Generated files committed alongside the source.
Run it after reading, not instead
Reading first, running second: a passing test on unread code tells you the test passed, not that the change is right.