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AI coding agents now generate pull requests in seconds, but human review takes 4.6 times longer than for human-written code, creating an 'Audit Tax' that bottlenecks software delivery. Anthropic recom…

A developer argues that AI coding agents, while fast at generating pull requests, impose an 'Audit Tax' that slows down software delivery because human review of agent-written code takes disproportion…

AI-assisted development has increased pull request queues by 59% year over year, but main-branch throughput fell 7% and success rates dropped to 70.8%, according to CircleCI's 2026 data. The bottlenec…