> It takes me at least the same amount of time to review code not written by me than it would take me to write the code myself, if not more.
Hard disagree. It's still way faster to review code than to manually write it. Also the speed at which agents can find files and the right places to add/edit stuff alone is a game changer.
> also less thorough/robust than writing for me.
This strikes me as a tradeoff I'm absolutely not willing to make, not when my name is on the PR
I'm fast at reviewing PRs because I know the person on the other end and can trust that they got things correctly. I'll focus on the meaty, tricky parts of their PR, but I can rest assured that they matched the design, for example, and not have to verify every line of CSS they wrote.
This is a recipe for disaster with AI agents. You have to read every single line carefully, and this is much more difficult for the large majority of people out there than if you had written it yourself. It's like reviewing a Junior's work, except I don't mind reviewing my Junior colleague's work because I know they'll at least learn from the mistakes and they're not a black box that just spews bullshit.
There's a difference between reviewing code by developers you trust, and reviewing code by developers you don't trust or AI you don't trust.
Although tbh, even in the worse case I think I am still faster at reviewing than writing. The only difference is though, those reviews will never have had the same depth of thought and consideration as when I write the code myself. So reviews are quicker, but also less thorough/robust than writing for me.