AI is accelerating PR volume and cracking a review bottleneck that's been straining for years. The proposed fix — let any engineer approve anything — guts the signal four-eyes is supposed to provide. There's a better answer, and it predates AI.
There's a term for what I've been focused on: AX. Agent Experience. It's been around a while, and it's where most of my time has gone recently.
There's a quiet assumption in agentic workflows that context switching stopped being a problem. It didn't. Here's how I capture mid-session discoveries without leaving the task I'm actually in.
Claude Code has official LSP plugins for code intelligence. Easy to miss if you haven't gone looking.
Daniel Griesser's custom sub-agent workflow for context management was ahead of its time — what he hand-rolled is now being shipped as first-class tooling. The core insight still stands: context is precious, and managing it intentionally is everything.
Mole is a macOS command-line tool that bundles system cleaning, smart app uninstalling, and build artifact removal into one binary. Ran it while fighting a disk space crunch and recovered over 20GB in minutes.