You became the quality inspector. Get a queue.

Reviewers of AI work · Working with AI · July 2026

Most engineers now spend the majority of their time reviewing AI output. The fix is not less AI — it is a review queue with signatures.

The Drafts section as a review queue: agent-authored release material, labeled draft and needs-review, waiting for human judgment.

Review is the new bottleneck; unsigned drafts are the new backlog.

The numbers from this spring's engineering surveys are blunt: 67 percent of engineers now spend the majority of their time reviewing AI output rather than writing, and 71 percent say they feel like a middleman between the model and the result. AI-generated pull requests wait 4.6 times longer for review. Generation stopped being the bottleneck; judgment is.

You cannot review a firehose, but you can review a queue. When agent drafts land as entries — labeled, signed, sorted — the flood becomes a worklist. Better: the agent that wrote the drafts can triage them, and tell you which three of the ten actually need your eyes.

The agent triages its own output: what changed in the drafts since Tuesday, and which three things need eyes.

Critique belongs next to the work. A comment on the draft itself survives; the same feedback pasted into a chat window is gone by Thursday. And because every entry is signed, you always know whether you are reading the agent's wording or a colleague's correction of it.

Critique where the work lives — the owner's comment sits beside the agent's changelog draft, not in a chat that scrolls away.

The decisions stay yours, and they stay visible: an action with your name on it gates the risky item, and nothing ships around it. That is the actual division of labor — the agent drafts and triages, the human judges, and the record shows which was which.

The judgment call stays human: an owner-assigned decision gates the migration note, with the linked draft one click away.

The inspector role is real and it is not going away. The difference between drowning in it and doing it well is whether your review queue has signatures.

The whole release at a glance — drafts, decisions, shipped — every entry signed by whoever wrote it.