How agentic AI is changing software code review

Agentic AI is pushing software teams to generate larger codebases, making manual line-by-line review increasingly impractical.

Practitioners say AI can handle linting, defect detection, and maintainability checks, while humans should verify architecture, domain logic, security, and accountability.

The shift turns code review into both a productivity challenge and a governance issue, especially as AI-produced code scales.

Teams are redefining what must be checked before shipping software, with emphasis on software supply chain, SBOMs, and cryptographic verification.