Australopithecus was already strongly lateralized — committed handers — long before the rightward consensus emerged. Two traits, evolved separately by millions of years.

Once you're running 5+ agents in parallel, review-as-trust stops being physically possible. There isn't time, and there are too many concurrent diffs. The trust mechanism has to move into the gates: precise specs, deterministic test suites, exit codes as ground truth.

It's roughly the same shift teams went through when they moved from "senior dev reads every PR" to "CI is the source of truth." Mechanical, unromantic, and the only thing that truly scales.

On the skill atrophy point, I think the analysis is directionally right. The senior engineering skill that agents reward most won’t be review. It's having the system design fundamentals and writing the quality gates to assure functional needs are met and non-functional fundamentals are in tact.