The industry is suffering from a collective delusion. We’ve treated the manual Pull Request (PR) as a sacred ritual of "quality," yet it has become the single greatest bottleneck in the modern delivery pipeline. As we move into an era of Generative AI and agentic workflows, the traditional code review isn't just slow—it’s redundant. If you want to maximize delivery efficiency, you need to stop policing lines of code and start orchestrating intelligence. The "Cargo Cult" of Manual Review Most teams perform code reviews because of "cargo culting"—they do it because they’ve always done it. When you ask a senior engineer why they are reviewing a specific PR, the answers are usually vague: "To catch bugs" or "To ensure quality." The reality? Humans are statistically terrible at spotting bugs in a diff. We are great at spotting missing semicolons or naming inconsistencies—things that a linter should have caught before the code was even committed.…