16 October 2026
Claude Code team says code review should focus on risk
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- Anthropic's Claude Code team argues the key question is what could go wrong, not whether a person read the code.
- They say review now happens continuously while code is written, with Claude checking most changes before a human looks.
- The idea is to pick the check that best catches each kind of risk, rather than relying on one human read-through.
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Only 1 of 30 newsletters covered this, Simon Willison's, and the story follows earlier archive pieces on AI code generation shifting engineering focus to verification on 2026-08-25. Like those, it concerns how code gets checked rather than who writes it.
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