break glass override
1 of our books defines this term.
A human “break glass” override remains available for cases where engineers need to bypass the AI reviewer, such as for urgent fixes.
— Agentic AI and Code Reviews, in “Agentic AI and Code Reviews”, Zach Davis (LaunchDarkly), Michelle Gill (Engineered by AI), Elisabeth Hendrickson (Curious Duck Digital Laboratory), Angie Jones (Agentic AI Foundation), Sha Ma (Topogy), Randy Shoup (CircleCI) & James Wickett (DryRun Security)
See also break glass · change set · code review · Continuous Code Quality Loop · pull request · risk-tiered review
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