Guarding your AI's pull requests with a cheaper, dumber AI

So much code is generated by AI these days that we’re swamped by it. Pull requests that used to be infrequent affairs are now the dominant work of the day … Or at least they SHOULD be if we’re being good little engineers, but we all know that we don’t have the stamina to carefully review every single one. And that’s a problem. Is It Safe? How do you know that the agent’s code is sound? Did it cut corners? Did it make a mistake and ship a bug? Did it try to pull a fast one on you? ...

June 18, 2026 · 7 min · kstenerud