One of the strengths of the too-many-approvals approach was that it made sure developers were still looking closely at every little change.

More likely it made developers immune to the approval button, instead just clicking approve blindly.

I would say: Learn to use LLMs as a tool rather than a crutch.

I’ve never seen it recommend a solution using regex. And I’ve had it provide a lot of useful code. Perhaps you need to look into prompt engineering training?

Try reading the question again, this time answer without hating all things LLM. OP asked if AI could be used for initial peer review, to which the answer is a big yes.

How a lot of software development ends up in real life too.

Which is a rounding error in any commercial business.

Phoenix Project and Unicorn Project are about non technical skills. Very entertaining books as well.

Except book #2 I fully agree, these are great books to read for someone who wants to grow their non technical skills.

Having worked in this industry for going on 25 years, I long ago learned that there are way too many incompetent programmers in the world working critical jobs. It’s best not to think about it.

Extremely click bait title by the article author.