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Editorial briefingSeptember 2, 2026 5 min read

Agents write faster than teams can review

A longitudinal study of 802 developers under an enterprise doubling mandate found per-capita throughput reached 2.09 times its baseline. In the same period, reviewer load roughly doubled and automated review overtook human review. The interesting question is no longer whether agents write code faster.

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