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Merged pull requests tripled to 220 million a month and commits passed 7.38 billion. Agentic engineering is no longer an experiment on GitHub. It is the operating baseline every team will be measured against.
When an AI checks every change before a colleague sees it, code review stops being a queue at the end of the road. The human reviewer's job shifts from hunting typos to interrogating assumptions, and most teams have not budgeted for that.
Boris Cherny's list of Anthropic's internal guardrails reads like a brag. It is actually a cost disclosure: agent-written code needs more verification than human code, and the pipeline that supplies it is where the real moat sits.
Georgi Gerganov runs a capable coding model locally on consumer hardware, with a harness stripped to almost nothing. The interesting part is what still slows him down: reviewing the work.
