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Ask HN: Why aren't more people worried about AI impersonation in code reviews?

technology ai_agents May 19, 2026 1 source · confidence 5/10
#AI Agents #Software Engineering #Cybersecurity #Git #Code Review #Identity

Summary

This is something that has bothered me for quite a while, and I don't see a lot of people talk about it: Agents, in most cases, impersonate the human operator, by design, with no way to enforce, disclose, or control it. I believe this is causing an illusion of human in the loop, and is not intentional, and should be discussed. For example: All commits, pushes, PRs, and PR comments are all going to appear as the developer whether they wrote them or not. (You may have Co-authored-by, but not every

Analysis

The content identifies a specific, overlooked security and process risk in the SDLC: the lack of identity provenance when agents use human OAuth tokens.

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