spicy take: Pull Requests are a nonsense ritual — and AI just exposed it.
It's interesting to see people panicking in my feed about “AI generating too many PRs to review”. My view: that’s not the real problem.
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- spicy take: Pull Requests are a nonsense ritual — and AI just exposed it.
It's interesting to see people panicking in my feed about “AI generating too many PRs to review”.
My view: that’s not the real problem. The real problem is that the concept of PRs in enterprise is broken.
PRs made sense in open source:
- outsiders contributed
- maintainers controlled what got pulled in
- permission boundaries were real
But in enterprise?
- most engineers already have permissions.
- they’re already the maintainers.
- yet we still force a workflow that turns delivery into a queue: commit → PR → wait → review → merge.
That’s not “quality”. That’s inventory.
And with agent fleets, that inventory is exploding. Honestly, if your delivery system depends on human review throughput, you don’t have a system — you have a queue. 🤓