This meme is a lie and we all know it 👇
Human PR review was always a bottleneck.
We merged things we hadn't fully read and shipped things we shouldn't have.
The difference now is that coding agents made it worse with PR slop.
Who wants to review this PR? 👇😅
PR reviews were already a known weak point in software development before AI coding agents arrived.
They just made it impossible to ignore.
Multiplayer works with Claude Code and very soon with Codex, Copilot, and Cursor.
Vendor neutrality isn't a nice-to-have. It's the only way to keep up.
First time at #KCDNewYork. Great event, easy to meet people, fantastic food.
Met @salaboy.com, newly elected CNCF TOC member and author of Platform Engineering on Kubernetes. Already at the top of my reading pile.
See you at the next one. 🙌
The way we verify software quality needs to evolve at the same pace as the way we generate it. Keeping a broken review process and hoping better tools paper over it isn't a strategy.
Full article: leaddev.com/ai/pr-review...
Every major model release makes the same point: the frontier keeps moving.
Claude Fable 5 today. Something better in six months.
The most underrated decision any engineering team makes right now: building AI workflows that are MODEL-AGNOSTIC.
Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson
I'm speaking at the #DeveloperWeek conference tomorrow in 📍New York.
If anyone is interesting in discussing agentic coding, debugging, or just have a coffee, find me and @bkstephj1.bsky.social ☕️
It’s hard not to make the connection between between AI output quality and data input.
The sooner the distinction between dashboard data and agent data becomes a first-class engineering concern the sooner coding agents will actually deliver on what everyone expects them to do.
Tom Johnson
Back in NY from #LDX3 London. 3 sessions in 2 days: AMA panel, a talk on why most MCP servers are collecting dust, and moderating a peer group.
The questions after my talk made every hour of prep worth it.
@leaddev.com sets the bar high for developer conferences!
