Which software development parts still need human oversight despite AI?
All answers agree that human oversight remains essential for reviewing, approving, or verifying code, especially for quality, sensitive data, and trust in AI-generated output.
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Michael Jenkins
C.T.O. · Threatlocker
Code Review
Michael Jenkins says code review is still needed, reasoning that as developers' code is reviewed by someone else before production, AI-written code should also be reviewed by somebody else.
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Will Bond
Staff Software Engineer · Uber
Code Approvals
Will Bond says code approvals are still handled by humans, though he sees a short path in the near future to a percentage of code landing with automatic approvals.
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Anders Hejlsberg
Technical Fellow · Microsoft
Code Review
Anders Hejlsberg says code review still requires human oversight: engineers have agents type lines of code and review their work, so they do more reviewing and less typing.
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Daniel Herrington
Chief AI Officer · The Zebra
Sensitive Data Reviews
Daniel Herrington says code reviews on sensitive data still require human review, calling them a hard sticky point and one of their biggest bottlenecks when teams crank out code fast.
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👨🏾💻 Ben Ilegbodu
Senior Software Engineer, TV Client Foundations · Netflix
Verification
Ben Ilegbodu says verification is one area still needing human oversight, since he and his team still look at the code agents generate and only somewhat trust the output.
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