Designing for the AI Co-Pilot Era: What Changes in Code Review

Code review was designed to catch a human's mistakes: typos, misunderstood requirements, missed edge cases from someone who was thinking about the problem but made an error. AI-assisted code introduces a different failure shape entirely — plausible-looking code that was never actually reasoned about by anyone.

Reviewing it the same way you'd review a human's pull request misses exactly the failure mode most likely to occur.