> the analogy might be writing in assembler vs writing in your high level language of choice.
If it were deterministic, yes, but it's not. When I write in a high level language, I never have to check the compiled code, so this comparison makes no sense.
If we see new kinds of languages, or compile targets, that would be different.
It's a new type of development for sure, but with an agentic system like Claude Code that is able to compile, run and test the code it is generating you can have it iterate until the code meets whatever test or other criteria you have set. No reason code reviews can't be automated too, customized to your own coding standards.
Effort that might be put into feeling that you need to manually review all code generated might better be put into things like automating quality checks (e.g code review, adherence to guidelines) ensuring that testing is comprehensive, and overall management of the design and process into modular testable parts the same way as if you'd done it manually.
While AI is a tool, the process of AI-centric software development is better regarded as a pair-design and pair-coding process, treating the AI more like a person than a tool. A human teammate isn't deterministic either, yet if they produce working artifacts that meet interface requirements and pass unit tests, you probably aren't going to insist on reviewing all of their code.