Code review for the agent factory

Why this conversation

When agents write more of the code, someone still has to check it. David Parry works in professional services at Qodo, a company whose product is code review, and he helps companies in their agentic journey. In this conversation he explained where Qodo’s review sits in a factory of agents, and why he wants each company’s factory to make something of its own. The host recorded with him at the conference’s studio on the show floor in San Jose on 22 October 2026, the first day of AGNTCon + MCPCon North America. The rest of that day is in AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026: day one.

The review, done for you

He opened with a show of hands: how many of you like to do code review? There are many reasons for a review, and Qodo takes one of them off the developer: looking for bugs and dealing with the governance of the code. Qodo finds those problems, addresses them and works with the developer on the review. The regular developers and the senior ones can then worry about the larger picture, a larger part of the code base, and the system thinking: understanding what they have built.

An MCP server in the factory

“We understand MCP is very critical in this world,” he said, and Qodo has an MCP server at its core that agents can call. In a software factory, the agents take over the busy, repetitive work developers used to do, but you still want to check them at the end. With Qodo’s MCP server there, the code they produce gets local feedback, and what reaches the review is clean. He calls this the shift left of the review.

A factory of your own

The host asked whether that means a completely automated software factory. Not quite, in his answer: the software is what makes a company unique. “Target doesn’t want to do exactly what Walmart’s going to want to do,” and Ford does not want to do what Tesla does. Turn the whole SDLC into one generalised system and every company becomes essentially the same, competing on price. He does not think we are there yet, and his work goes the other way: helping developers build the factories that make their company unique and give business value, writing the MCP for the business, and bringing in technologies they already use, such as Spring Boot and Spring AI, to make the company agentic.

That takes guardrails, which he compares to a jig: “one straight path or a turn that can be measured, understood”. It keeps a company away from hallucinations and from embarrassing moments, such as giving out all its tokens.

Free for open source

To start, go to qodo.ai. This being a Linux Foundation event, he spoke for the open source people too: Qodo is very big on the community, he said, and if your project is open source, it gets the same professional and enterprise reviews for free. Everyone else can sign up there and start getting reviews.

When it comes out

The episode is edited and in the release order. Like every episode it goes out on YouTube first, then on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.