Beyond Token Intelligence: Why AI Code Review Needs Cognitive Architectures

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A few months ago, I watched a senior engineer spend forty-five minutes reviewing a single pull request — a PR that an AI assistant had generated in under two minutes. The code looked clean. The tests passed. But she kept cross-referencing an incident postmortem from eight months earlier, muttering something about retry amplification.She caught a real production risk. The AI reviewer had flagged nothing.