InfoQ - Code Reviews

Article: Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

Jacobus Meintjes, Narayana Rengaswamy, Paul Katsande, Sureshbabu Bikki — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

As AI commoditizes code output, system comprehension silently decays, creating cognitive debt that threatens safe architectural evolution. This article explores why human understanding must be treated as an essential architectural characteristic, offering actionable strategies, socio-technical metrics, and design checkpoints to preserve intent across modern engineering teams.

By Jacobus Meintjes, Narayana Rengaswamy, Paul Katsande, Sureshbabu Bikki

Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics

Matt Saunders — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that AI agents generate most of its code. The company describes a shift from measuring PR size to assessing blast radius, with feature flags and rollback capability taking precedence over line counts.

By Matt Saunders

Dropbox Integrates MCP and Dash to Close the Gap between Security Design and Code Review

Leela Kumili — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:36:00 GMT

Dropbox has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with its internal knowledge platform, Dash, to surface security design context during AI assisted code reviews. The system retrieves threat models and security requirements for pull requests, helping reviewers validate implementation against design intent. An InfoQ Q&A explores the architecture and key lessons learned.

By Leela Kumili