Writing by Lee Nave — software, agents, and the occasional honest benchmark.https://navels.dev/https://navels.dev/blog/betting-on-the-reviewer/https://navels.dev/blog/betting-on-the-reviewer/neal is an open-source coding agent built around a read-only reviewer as the gate. Here is the bet, an honest ablation, and the parts that were not flattering.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT