Armstrong: Engineers should update AI context repos rather than edit imperfect PRs
“And you have to, it's like a shift in mindset where, you know, let's say that it creates a draft pull request for some new feature, and it's not quite perfect. Your instinct typically would be to go in there and actually edit the pull request to make it better…”
Daigle: Replacing pull requests is hard because code review codifies social trust
“I think the reason why there's not a single answer is ultimately we're trying to codify trust. We're trying to say like, okay, if Sean reviews this, I'm going to trust it because you're Sean or you're the senior dev or you're the whatever. And right now when w…”
Burazin: Agent-generated PR volume has made CI/CD the main engineering bottleneck
“So the amount of PRs being created is insane right now, right? In general. Everyone's creating a bunch of PRs, like everyone. And then all that has to go through CI. And then that's the bottleneck. Like everyone's bottleneck. Like not just action, like not jus…”
Swix: Pull requests and code reviews are dying, replaced by prompt requests
“The pull request is dying. Yeah. Right? It's going to be the prompt request. And then beyond that, code review is also kind of dying”
Garry Tan: Multi-session AI workflow enables up to 50 PRs processed daily
“When it's ready to land, it lands, and I can do 10, 15, 20, sometimes 50 PRs in any given day, depending on the number of meetings I have in that day.”
Nelle: Generating PRs is easy, but merge confidence is the new bottleneck
“One of the new bottlenecks is getting into production and we have a, Like, joke internally where you'll be talking about some feature and someone says, I have a PR for that. Which is like, it's so easy to get to, I have a PR for that, but it's kind of hard sti…”
Laskin: Team-Wide AI Memory Governance Will Mirror Pull Request Workflows
“Where if you want to change the agents, the team wide memory, then it probably is going to look something like a pull request where the person who really understands that system Approves or, you know, edits it or something like this. I don't think it's going t…”