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Konwinski is onto something real: as code generation gets cheap, review becomes the bottleneck, and review fatigue is a quality risk most teams haven't budgeted for. His thesis that engineers matter more, not less, is right in spirit — verification, system understanding and taste are becoming the core skills — but the market hasn't caught up, with junior hiring still shrinking across the industry. Open-sourcing the tool is smart positioning for Laude, though the real test is whether RevEngine actually cuts review load or just adds another tab to the stack. In our view, the 'more engineers than ever' claim needs a caveat: demand is shifting toward fewer but deeper engineers, not a bigger headcount.
Engineers around the world are burning out reviewing code written by AIs.
But we can do something about it. RevEngine is an open source tool we built at Laude that makes code reviews less painful, which makes engineers happier.
It's a common misunderstanding to think that software engineers are becoming less important as AI gets better at writing…

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