The Weekly Read
Three pieces this week say the code-review argument has been about the wrong thing. Review was never the quality gate that's breaking. It was carrying four jobs at once, and it beat heavyweight inspection on cost rather than on merit. Underneath that, an injection chain against Claude Code's default mode works because the model obeys its own safety rule: it refuses the attacker's decoder, writes its own, and runs that. Also here: what open models actually saved Uber, Pinterest and AT&T, Shopify reversing a successful React Native bet because building twice got cheap, and a thirty-eight-year safety engineer who wants FAA-style proficiency rules for the debugging work agents now absorb. The colored tags mark where a piece connects to something we're building.
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