The biggest version of this I see is when people batch-submit PRs to popular open source repos with agent-generated code. The maintainer gets flooded with well-formatted but shallow contributions that take more time to review than they save.
What helps is treating agent output as a first draft. My workflow: let the agent generate, then spend equal time reviewing as if a junior dev wrote it. If I cannot explain every line in the diff, it does not ship.
The culture shift matters too. Teams should normalize asking "did you review this yourself?" without it feeling accusatory. A simple PR template checkbox like "I have personally tested these changes" sets the right expectation.
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The biggest version of this I see is when people batch-submit PRs to popular open source repos with agent-generated code. The maintainer gets flooded with well-formatted but shallow contributions that take more time to review than they save.
What helps is treating agent output as a first draft. My workflow: let the agent generate, then spend equal time reviewing as if a junior dev wrote it. If I cannot explain every line in the diff, it does not ship.
The culture shift matters too. Teams should normalize asking "did you review this yourself?" without it feeling accusatory. A simple PR template checkbox like "I have personally tested these changes" sets the right expectation.