Stop trying to replace code reviewers. Brief them. In the last 18 months, AI changed how code gets written . It also broke how it gets reviewed — and most of the industry is fixing the wrong thing. Pull requests today are bigger, more frequent, and harder to read. Engineers ship in hours what used to take days. The keyboard is no longer the bottleneck. The reviewer is. The dev-tools industry's response has been to point AI at the same problem — but in the wrong direction. The "AI reviewer" trend, and why it stalls out Open any PR with an AI review bot installed and you'll see the same shape: a flurry of inline comments. "Consider extracting this method." "Add a null check here." "Possible race condition." Some are useful. Most are noise. A few are wrong. None of them tell you the thing you actually need to know on a 26-file PR: What is this change really doing? Where do I look first? What's likely to break? The premise of these tools is that the AI is the reviewer.…