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AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code
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Companies rethink how early-career engineers can get vital coding experience.
Key facts
- In November 2025, Synthesia’s 118 engineers went all-in on AI coding tools like Claude Code
- At Bonterra, a nonprofit software provider with about 290 engineers, proposed changes tripled within three months of adopting AI, according to Tanuja Korlepra, the CTO
- Sundaresan estimates that AI can help junior engineers perform 70 to 80 percent of some tasks that once required a senior engineer
- In a survey of more than 1,100 developers by Sonar, an AI code-verification startup, respondents estimated that AI contributed 42 percent of the code they added to shared codebases
Summary
Aaron Mok is a freelance journalist covering AI, tech, and the workforce. AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. Companies are responding to the onslaught of AI code slop by rethinking how they re. The shift comes as the surge in AI-generated code puts new pressure on engineering teams. The new era of code review will determine whether AI can ever provide code that is both faster and more reliable.