Why Humans Can't Keep Up With AI-Written Code - Tariq Shaukat, Sonar
Agents have made code cheap: one study saw lines of code up 2,450% but releases up only 30%.
Sonar CEO Tariq Shaukat draws on the factory revolution that Toyota and Lexus started to explain how to build agentic software factories you can trust. He breaks down five hard problems: human review that doesn't scale (people agree with AI that's wrong 4 out of 5 times), agents struggling with large codebases, errors compounding over long tasks, unreliable LLM judges, and near-zero time to exploit. Then he lays out Sonar's code confidence formula: intent, guide rails, verification and evidence.
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