> My question is: why are we waiting until code review to do all of those things? I’ve never particularly liked pull requests as the centre of the software development process.

This is a strawman. Who is writing code professionally without planning ahead?

> Perhaps that’s what AI is exposing. ... It worked, sort of, while humans could only produce code so quickly.

Huh? This doesn't make any sense to me either for the exact same reason. Are the kinds of people who always sucked at planning finally getting slightly better at it with AI? Is this a breakthrough for people with ADHD, or what? Do these people really like seeing lots of text scroll by so much that they can't have a few simple meetings?

I'm still confused what any of this is really about. To me it reads like another AI copout blog post. I want to understand the author's idea of a productive workflow.