Sphinx quizzes developers before AI code ships

Sphinx targets a real weakness in agent-assisted development: code can become easier to generate than to understand. Its quiz gate is a clever accountability mechanism, but teams may see it as valuable guardrail or just another source of confirmation fatigue.

• –A reviewer model reads the diff without access to the developer’s coding-agent conversation
• –Incorrect answers explain the underlying behavior and generate a new scenario
• –The workflow preserves human responsibility without requiring developers to abandon AI coding tools
• –`sphinx yolo` provides an escape hatch while logging skipped checks
• –It complements tests and code review rather than replacing them