Reviewing Agent Code Is Different from Reviewing Human Code

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:25:00 +0000

Reviewing code written by a colleague is different from reviewing code written by an agent.

Work with someone long enough and you pick up their habits — one person loves reduce, another always misses edge cases. An agent has no habits. Every output depends on the session context.

Here are the checkpoints I’ve built for reviewing agent code.

First: did it touch things it shouldn’t have?

The agent’s biggest problem isn’t writing wrong code — it’s not controlling itself. It might fix one bug and casually modify a config file next to it, or rename a function that had nothing to do with the task.

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Reviewing Agent Code Is Different from Reviewing Human Code

First: did it touch things it shouldn’t have?