Gopalan: Software engineers now do more code review than code generation
Vivek Gopalan · Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge · Aug 24, 2026 · at 36:04
8VC partner Vivek Gopalan argues that software engineering productivity tools have shifted the bottleneck from code generation to code review.
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“More software engineers are doing code review than they're doing the generation of code.”
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