The rise of async AI programming

This works until you get to the point that your actual programming skills atrophy due to lack of use.

Face it, the only reason you can do a decent review is because of years of hard won lessons, not because you have years of reading code without writing any.

You're right, reviews aren't the way forward. We don't do code reviews on compiler output (unless you're writing a compiler). The way forward is strong static and analytic guardrails and stochastic error correction (multiple solutions proposed with LLM as a judge before implementation, multiple code review agents with different personas that have been prompted to be strict/adversarial but not nit-pick) with robust test suites that have also been through multiple passes of audits and red-teaming by agents. You should rarely have to look at the code, it should be a significant escalation event like when you need to coordinate with Apple due to XCode bugs.