“Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs.” “Don’t do that.”

I recently attended a talk, by an engineer at a large software company, on the topic of unreviewable PRs. The problem? When agents raise PRs with thousands of lines of LLM-written adds/deletes/edits, people can’t make sense of them. The solution? Throw more agents at the problem: reviewer agents that scan what coding agents have produced, identify problems, and triage them. I don’t make software at industrial scale, so I can’t evaluate the claim that throughput gain justifies the absence of end-to-end human engagement. What I can say is that as I use Bram to bootstrap itself, I am fully engaged thanks to the workflow embodied in the tool. Here’s the breakdown of languages in Bram. Language Lines of code Rust 24,630 JavaScript 7,542 XMLUI 4,149 Python 3,152 Markdown 1,419 XS (XMLUI) 742 Total 42,805 Bram is a Tauri desktop app, Tauri’s native language is Rust, so Rust — a language I never touched before this project — dominates. I have yet to write a single line of Rust! But I read the…