The accountability
gap is growing.
AI is changing how software gets built. Developers now have AI assistants writing code for them. Productivity is going up. Costs are going down.
But something important is getting lost.
When software was written by people, you knew who was responsible. When a junior developer broke production, their team lead took responsibility. When a bug caused a data leak, you could point to a name. A person.
Now, when AI writes code and something goes wrong... who is responsible?
The AI? That is not an answer.
The developer who copied the AI output? They will say they did not write it.
The company? They will say nobody knew.
Human oversight is not overhead.
It is the feature.
Reviewed by Human is a simple principle: nothing goes to production without a human who owns it.
We are not against AI. AI is a tool. A powerful one. Use it to write code. Use it to help review code. Use it to find bugs.
But before software touches customers, a human must make the call. A human must say: I reviewed this. I approve this. If something goes wrong, I am responsible.
Companies who sign the pledge make one simple public commitment:
"Every piece of code we deploy to production is reviewed by a human. A human whose name we can provide. A human who is responsible."
The form of that review is up to each company. Code review, architecture sign-off, security audit — the specifics vary. The principle does not.
This is a voluntary pledge, not a certification with audits. It is a public statement of values.
Iztok Smolic
Founder, Reviewed by Human
I have been leading software development teams for 12 years. I learned early that leadership means responsibility — when your team ships something, you own it.
I am currently CEO of Agiledrop, a software development company based in Slovenia. We build software for clients around the world, and we have been doing this since 2012.
I started Reviewed by Human because I am worried about where our industry is heading. Everyone talks about AI productivity. Nobody talks about AI accountability. I want to change that conversation.
Agiledrop is a founding signatory of this pledge. I hope many other companies will join us.
Agiledrop is a software development company from Ljubljana, Slovenia. We specialize in Drupal and enterprise web development, working with clients from startups to large organizations.
Agiledrop is a founding signatory of the Reviewed by Human pledge.