# Code Review Is Dead: Why AI-Generated Code Needs Verification, Not Human Approval

> Source: <https://blog.codacy.com/code-review-is-dead-why-ai-generated-code-needs-verification-not-human-approval>
> Published: 2026-06-24 21:46:54+00:00

This is part 2 of our The Future of Code Review series. Read part 1, AI Is Breaking Code Review: How Engineering Teams Survive the PR Bottleneck, [here](https://blog.codacy.com/ai-breaking-code-review-how-engineering-teams-survive-pr-bottleneck).

The ceremony of pre-merge human approval is breaking. With [AI adoption among software development professionals reaching 90%](https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/dora-report-2025/), code is increasingly generated faster than review processes were designed to handle. The gap widens with every new tool adoption.