A year after 100% AI mandate, code unclear
The gist
A Reddit poster says a workplace 100% AI coding mandate felt great for six months, then left the team unable to understand its code.
The debate over how much humans should review AI-written code is spreading as major labs say AI writes all of theirs.
How it unfolded
- Feb 19, 2026Engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI said AI writes 100% of their code, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted AI will write most of his company's code by midyear.
- Nov 7, 2026A Reddit r/cscareerquestions post asked what the purpose of code reviews is in 100% AI environments, weighing AI-as-assistant, AI writing all code with mandatory reviews, and no review.
- recentlyA Reddit r/ProtonPublic post titled "A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our ..." said AI should never have been mandated and that hand-written code needed a reason.
Key terms
- code reviews
- A software quality activity where people other than the author examine source code to find and fix errors.
- spec
- A description of a software system to be built, listing its functional and non-functional requirements.
- stochastic
- Describing a process modeled as a family of random variables, i.e. one that varies in a random manner.
Source: Wikipedia