> Mike sent me a 1600 line pull-request with no tests, entirely written by AI, and expected me to approve it immediately as to not to block him on his deployment schedule.

Both Mike and the manager are cargo-culting the PR process too. Code review is what you do when you believe it's worth losing velocity in order for code to pass through the bottleneck of two human brains instead of one.

LLMs are about gaining velocity by passing less code through human brains.