{
  "id": 3140064,
  "title": "AI promoted every developer to reviewer. Nobody tested the reviewer.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/ai-promoted-every-developer-to-reviewer-nobody-tested-the-reviewer",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T23:23:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/heinrichneb/ai-promoted-every-developer-to-reviewer-nobody-tested-the-reviewer-m4h"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Michael Amachree observed that AI promoted developers to reviewer roles but failed to ensure that reviewers were properly tested. Of the 204 automated checks in his repositories, only 22 had a mechanism to prove they could fail, which is only 11%. The rest of the checks had never been tested with a known-bad input and therefore couldn't be verified as accurate. This issue manifested in three real-world scenarios: a deploy gate failing due to a missing tool, a job reporting failed results when it should have succeeded, and an error classifier misinterpreting a non-fatal warning as a server error. The article stresses the importance of judging artifacts directly rather than relying on messenger-based indicators like exit codes or green checkmarks, as a green checkmark doesn't guarantee accuracy.",
  "summary": "I wanted to disagree with 'AI made me a worse reviewer' from Michael Amachree ( @dev_michael ) . Instead I counted 204 of my own guards — and 89 % of them have never been asked to prove they can fail. Michael wrote something that I couldn't put down: AI didn't make me a worse coder, it made me a worse reviewer. Here is the number, and it's worse than his thesis: of the 204 automated checks in my…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}