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Agentic Code Quality: Quality Now Depends on the Constraints You Set Around Your Agents
Addy Osmani Elevate·August 8, 2026
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Summary
Argues that since human review can't scale to agent-generated code volume, quality has to be enforced through constraints (quality gates: tests, mutation testing, complexity metrics, architecture linting) built into the harness/environment rather than through reading every diff.
Why this signal
A practical checklist for building the automated 'back-pressure' Thomas Engineering would need if it wants to safely increase how much code review shifts from humans to constraint systems — directly actionable for CodeRabbit/CI configuration decisions.
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Addy Osmani Elevate · 8/8/2026
Agentic Code Quality