The problem
More work needs review. The number of qualified reviewers has not changed.
And the review is harder, because nobody wrote the work by hand.
Where it breaks
Review becomes the bottleneck.
Approval becomes rubber-stamping.
Accountability stays human regardless.
A review step is not the same as a meaningful review.
Day to day
What it looks like from the inside.
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More PRs arrive needing review.
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Junior and senior work lands in the same queue.
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Context switching makes a careful check harder.
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Work gets through to production without a clear trail of who checked what, and when.
Patterns from FreQNC discovery research. No participant is named or quoted.