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“…I'd say most engineers who've worked on large-scale projects never really had an ability to understand 100% of the code anyway, right?” — Andi Gutmans, The Stack Overflow Podcast

Gutmans was answering the worry that AI-written code leaves engineers without real understanding of the systems they own. His answer denies the premise: at enterprise scale nobody was reading every line before agents either. He allows Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel as a possible exception, then argues review effort should be spent by judgment rather than spread evenly.

The Stack Overflow Podcast · 2026-08-21 Context → Listen →

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