AI Writes More PRs. Who Validates Them? — Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Sonar
AI-generated PRs are overwhelming code review pipelines, creating a quality validation crisis for engineering teams.
“Thanks to AI, more PRs are being generated than before, and they are getting larger, each of which may contain defects.”
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, founder of guitar.ai (recently acquired by Sonar), argues that AI coding tools are making code review bottlenecks worse, not better, by producing more and larger PRs each potentially containing defects. Engineering teams face a forced tradeoff: slow down reviews to maintain quality or auto-approve PRs and risk production failures, either path reducing developer morale and productivity. His proposed answer is an agent-based approach to automated code verification, positioning Sonar's tooling as the solution to AI-generated code quality at scale.