"the code review: if you can’t review code, you can’t direct AI tools. You cannot lead a team. You cannot even trust your own work."

I would revise that a bit

since we don't write code, we write intents - we shouldn't review code either, we should review intents.

I don't review my code anymore. I ask the agent to generate markdown docs, graphviz diagrams, changelogs, audit reports, etc. I only review that.

I also ask it to write test and evaluate by whether the tests passed or not. I don't need to peak into the tests code - I can also ask plain english, pseudocode, control flow graph, whatever it is I want.

I can ask it to find errors or missing tests and improve that too!

so yea - code is like assembly now. rare are the cases you need to peak into that level.