A rebuttal to Charity Majors' suggestion that developers should feel comfortable shipping AI-generated code without reading it. The author argues that code review serves two critical purposes: diffusing responsibility across the team so no single person bears the burden of bugs or downtime, and spreading codebase knowledge to reduce bus factor. Skipping review to accommodate AI-generated code eliminates both benefits and externalizes knowledge to a third-party AI provider. The author's answer to 'what would it take to ship unread code?' is a written liability waiver from whoever demands it.
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