Stop Reviewing Every Line of AI Code - Build the Trust Stack Instead

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

Same mental model we already use for libraries and dependencies. We don't review every line of lodash, fastapi, or chi. We shouldn't expect to review every line of AI-generated code either. I argued this in my previous post. The natural follow-up question: okay, but what does that actually require? You can't tell people "trust it like you trust open-source" without explaining what that trust is built on. This post is a first attempt at answering that. We Already Have A Trust Framework. We Just Don't Use It For This. Every day, in every codebase. That trust didn't come from any single tool.