The gradient

This isn't a light switch. Code review doesn't disappear overnight.

The amount of human time spent on writing and reviewing code continuously decreases as agents take their place. As harnesses, agents, and CI tooling get better, human time shifts to intent review. Some teams are already at the point where time spent writing and reviewing code is negligible — if it passes CI, it ships. Other teams are earlier on the curve.

The direction is clear even if the timeline varies. Every improvement in agent reliability, every new CI check that an agent can handle, every deterministic constraint you can encode into your harness — each one moves another slice of human attention from code review to intent review.

Scott is built for wherever you are on that gradient. Whether your team still does thorough code review or has fully automated it.