this concept of bottlenecking on code review is definitely a problem.

Either you (a) don't review the code, (b) invest more resources in review or (c) hope that AI assistance in the review process increases efficiency there enough to keep up with code production.

But if none of those work, all AI assistance does is bottleneck the process at review.

Also the thought of my job becoming more code review than anything else is enough to turn me into a carpenter.

If companies truly believed more code equals more productivity then they will remove all code review from their process and let IC’s ship AI generated code that they “review” as the prompter directly to prod.